i’m currently reading a clive cussler book where he describes denver in detail 100 years ago. he mentions the rocky mountain news quite a few times. it’s sad to see denver lose a piece of her history.
Two-paper cities are a thing of the past. I would hope the Republican party has better things to do with whatever money they have than to waste it on buying the RMN.
The Tucson Citizen is closing down, and the Albuquerque number two shut a few months ago. The only cities I can think of (I’m sure there are a few others) with two significant papers are Detroit (where they are now delivering only three days a week in an effort to stay alive), Philadelphia (where they just went into Chapter 11), Chicago (where the Sun-Times is trying to find a buyer and Tribune is Chapter 11), and New York.
Matthew, if you want to spend your allowance buying the RMN, go ahead. It wouldn’t take much more, I imagine.
Just trying to be creative. It would be interesting to see how effective the GOP could be at spreading its message.
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Really though, papers are simply going out of date. By the time news lands on my doorstep, chance’s are I saw it on the ten o’clock news. We live in a 24-hour news world, people hear about news within seconds or minutes of the event.
Why run newspapers when we can publish online? The Internet is the future for conservatives, because it’s cheap and not nearly as regulated by the government.
Paul Weyrich tried founding a television station called National Empowerment Television to get around the traditional media establishment, but it eventually folded from lack of funding. But if bandwidth increases to the point where Internet video quality approaches television quality, then conservative television networks could be founded online. With a lot of volunteer work, they would be cheap to maintain. In time, web lectures could become a standard conservative/libertarian source of education for kids, outside the socialist indoctrination of the public schools. With the Fairness Doctrine looming over radio and television, we should concentrate on the Internet and building up our movement there. Even the ChiComs have trouble controlling Chinese freedom fighters’ websites.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Maybe the GOP should buy the paper and turn it into a Conservative news outlet.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
i’m currently reading a clive cussler book where he describes denver in detail 100 years ago. he mentions the rocky mountain news quite a few times. it’s sad to see denver lose a piece of her history.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Hint to Republicans – you might take a hint from these guys: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/26/america/27webliberals.php
February 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
us coloradans are losing a real piece of history tomorrow, not to mention the conservative paper as opposed to the liberal rag of the denver post
February 26th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Two-paper cities are a thing of the past. I would hope the Republican party has better things to do with whatever money they have than to waste it on buying the RMN.
The Tucson Citizen is closing down, and the Albuquerque number two shut a few months ago. The only cities I can think of (I’m sure there are a few others) with two significant papers are Detroit (where they are now delivering only three days a week in an effort to stay alive), Philadelphia (where they just went into Chapter 11), Chicago (where the Sun-Times is trying to find a buyer and Tribune is Chapter 11), and New York.
Matthew, if you want to spend your allowance buying the RMN, go ahead. It wouldn’t take much more, I imagine.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
lol.
Probably true.
Just trying to be creative. It would be interesting to see how effective the GOP could be at spreading its message.
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Really though, papers are simply going out of date. By the time news lands on my doorstep, chance’s are I saw it on the ten o’clock news. We live in a 24-hour news world, people hear about news within seconds or minutes of the event.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
#1 MatthewK,
Why run newspapers when we can publish online? The Internet is the future for conservatives, because it’s cheap and not nearly as regulated by the government.
Paul Weyrich tried founding a television station called National Empowerment Television to get around the traditional media establishment, but it eventually folded from lack of funding. But if bandwidth increases to the point where Internet video quality approaches television quality, then conservative television networks could be founded online. With a lot of volunteer work, they would be cheap to maintain. In time, web lectures could become a standard conservative/libertarian source of education for kids, outside the socialist indoctrination of the public schools. With the Fairness Doctrine looming over radio and television, we should concentrate on the Internet and building up our movement there. Even the ChiComs have trouble controlling Chinese freedom fighters’ websites.