Regardless of how you feel about the bias in media, fewer voices and fewer checks on the powers that be is not a good thing.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/
Hadn’t the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News already mostly merged anyway? I never understood why Denver had a morning and afternoon paper. My Dad got both. Also, being a paperboy for the RMN was a good after-school gig. You didn’t have to get up at o’dark thirty to deliver it.
They had a joint operating agreement on the business, circulation and advertising sides. Editorially, however, they were completely different. Whereas, for example, the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently agreed to share some content, the News and Post were fierce and nasty competitors, and suggestion of such an agreement would have brought mention of dead bodies and such. Oh well, moot point now.
Any city that has multiple newspapers is richer for it because they offer different perspectives, competition on beats, and as I said in the original post, the more checks on the powers that be, the better. The Post broke news in the morning, and the News offered depth and perspective in the afternoon.
I’m sorry to see them the go. Always preferred Rocky Mtn New to Post.