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Friday, 2009 February 27 2:22 PM MST — Arvada, Colorado UNITED STATES

“I kind of like holding paper.”

Depression doesn't even begin to explain it.

Okay, that might be a bit over stating it. Still, it's a sad day for me… and a lot of people in Denver as well. The Rocky Mountain News just put out its final edition today. What's more is that this is happening to newspapers across the country. In some ways, it doesn't make sense why I feel so bad. Even though the newspaper industry is failing, the philosophy of news reporting and opinion isn't. That will still live on in other forms.1 Still, it's just sad because…

…I kind of like holding paper.

  1. So all of you saying that this means that democracy is dying can all just calm the hell down.

Quote to ponder: “Journalism is the first rough draft of history.” — Donald E. Graham

Currently reading…
Moby-Dick
By Herman Melville
Released on Saturday, 1851 October 18.

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