Goodbye, Rocky
Fifty-five days later, Rocky Mountain News will be celebrating its 150th birthday…
But today is the final edition of RMN.
While the video is a great piece of multimedia, it’s just so depressing…
http://www.vimeo.com/3390739
After watching the video above, I started to reading the comments people wrote on the newspaper’s Web site and one of them stood out to me:
My_RMN_1 wrote, “We as tax payers are prodded and poked into paying our hard earned money, which everyday we see evaporating, to bail out banks, or some other enormous corporation. We’ve learned our money has covered the enormous bonuses the execs from these institutions pay themselves, we’ve not received any assurance this will even work, and if we look at history, we can see that probably it won’t. But still, we pay. Now OUR newspaper can’t pay the bills, and there is nothing we can do about it. This was the natural consequence of all this media consolidation…”
Newspapers are supposed to be voices of ordinary people, and the voices are lost when only the powerful and rich can control the media.
