December 15, 2008 08:12 PM UTC

I Want My Rocky! (dot com)

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• by: Jeff Bridges

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

[POLS Note: Read the sidebar on the IWantMyRocky site, where it says that they expect to only have until mid-January before the Rocky closes down.]

Can’t imagine life in a one-(major)-paper town? Especially if that paper’s the Denver Post? Want to do something more than complain about it here on Pols?

According to the Associated Press, a group of 30 Rocky Mountain News staffers have created an outlet for your passion and support. IWantMyRocky.com launched Sunday night and kicks off with a piece from Mike Littwin:

We meet in this strange place in a noble effort to save the Rocky Mountain News. And if we can’t save the Rocky, we can, at minimum, make some noise before we go. Since the day the proposed sale of the Rocky was announced, we’ve been waiting for the odd billionaire to join our cause. This may surprise you, but none has come forward. Apparently Phil and Tim and Pat and the rest of the team must have misplaced our e-mail address.

So, we turn now to the non-billionaires. We think there may be more of you. We ask not for your money, but – as they say in the sports world – for the opportunity to play for pride. Many of you read the Rocky. Many of you and your families have read the Rocky for generations. Many of you don’t know how to hold a paper that is bigger than a tabloid and simultaneously eat your Wheaties

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You can comment on our posts here on iwantmyrocky.com about, yes, why you want your Rocky. You can be the roots in a grassroots effort to save the Rocky or help save our sanity, anyway. There are many helpful (or so I’m told) suggestions on this Web site. Feel free to send in more of your own.

Thanks for your help and for 149½ years (so far).

While I think ireallydontwantogetlaidoffinthisgeorgebusheconomy.com might have been a more accurate name, my heart goes out to these guys. As I’ve commented before, they have – by far – the best political coverage in the state.

So gather up a posse and head on over. I know many of our readers have strong opinions about the sale, and while every Rocky reporter should read Colorado’s most influential political blog every day, I suspect they’ll pay a little more attention to comments on their own site.