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Rocky Mountain News, Unable to Find Buyer, to Close Tomorrow
Your key words were "will try". We all know we are squandering our money on slow motion deaths of some of the banks. It's time for euthanasia on Wall Street, because the Geithner/Summers way is billion and trillioning us to death. Too bad we have all the money to prop up gamblers, but nothing for the First Amendment. Our only hope is that we miss newspapers when they are gone, but I doubt it.— February 26, 2009 2:01 p.m.
Rocky Mountain News, Unable to Find Buyer, to Close Tomorrow
Quick question, since you are an expert on tne economy and a journalist. I say that newspapers can get us through a time of bad banks better than bad banks can get us through a time of no newspapers. What say you?— February 26, 2009 1:12 p.m.
Rocky Mountain News, Unable to Find Buyer, to Close Tomorrow
The demise of American newspapers is shameful. An ignorant American populace will be sorry some day. Or maybe not, if you've seen the movie IDIOCRACY. I was always a huge fan of your columns, back in the 1980's when I lived in San Diego, because you spoke common sense, not talking points, as are so common today. I thought you must have had some salacious info on someone, or you would have been canned. I doubt that you remember me, but I ran for Congress in San Diego in the 1988 Republican primary against Bill Lowery, because I saw waste and fraud at General Dynamics and wanted to save all of us some money, and knew how to do it. The San Diego Union said that I was not a "serious candidate" because I had not raised gazillions of dollars. Bill Lowery was re-elected that year, but eventually thrown out for his shenanigans. But, unless people want to hear the truth, nothing will change. And, last I heard, Lowery was a millionaire lobbyist. And now, I am sorry to say, in the same way the San Diego Union said that I wasn't a serious candidate, daily newspapers must not be serious media like the web sites that link to them. The papers cannot sell enough papers or ads, and cannot make enough money to succeed, so they must not be serious purveyors or information. Of course, this is ludicrous. Without newspapers and their investigations, we are in trouble. I fear the day that my Chicago Sun Times crashes and burns, though it will soon, because that is the day that the crooked politicians like Mayor Daley, and unnamed others, will celebrate, even more than now. Abraham Lincoln isn't spinning in his grave. Mike Royko is.— February 26, 2009 12:51 p.m.