Rocky Mountain News reincarnates on Monday?

Good for them

I miss their funny papers.

How about a 5 trillion tax cut for the upper 1% that's borrowed from China  and then invested in China? The Republican platform has legs.

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by: Ray Springfield @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 19:37:02 PM CDT

I wouldn't count on the cartoons being the same, if there are any...

We have no word, right now, on whether they'll be able to afford the syndication rights ($) for them.  

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by: Canines @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:21:04 PM CDT

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Could we get them to take Vincent Carroll

And Mike Rosen back?

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by: BlueCat @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:48:03 PM CDT

oh please

Rosen I can do without.

How about a 5 trillion tax cut for the upper 1% that's borrowed from China  and then invested in China? The Republican platform has legs.

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by: Ray Springfield @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:17:21 PM CDT

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They need a good webmaster

clueless they are about they web

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by: davebarnes @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:39:46 PM CDT

Here's hoping

If they try an approach substantially different from just repeating the newspaper model on the web, then it has a chance.

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

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by: DavidThi808 @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:23:14 PM CDT

More on the subject

Last Saturday, an announcement was made that stated iwantmyrocky.com had morphed into a non-profit organization.

Created as part of a campaign to save the Rocky and re-launched as a news and advocacy site for journalism, IWantMyRocky.com is now a component of a larger project: a nonprofit corporation.

The organization was incorporated recently and is in the process of filing for federal tax-exempt status. As a nonprofit advocacy organization, I Want My Rocky will seek grants and other types of funding as it pursues its mission to stem losses in journalism and hold the bar on journalistic integrity as the industry's transition progresses.

On the RMI website, it states that iwantmyrocky.com will be "partners and friends."

Is a 21st century news medium about to give birth in Colorado?

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by: WestSloper @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 02:30:42 AM CDT

If I were involved (I'm not)

Here's a couple of suggestions

1. No editors. Reporters write & post directly. And when they have something wrong, they apologize.
2. Readers can vote up/down on writers & subjects. You then set what that reader sees based on their vote.
3. Accept reader submitted material (with a reader run vetting/voting system).
4. Tie in with Cragislists for classifieds.
5. Find 2nd tier advertisers who understand the web. In other words a furniture store that will use the web to replace Jake Jabs. A couple of successes here and you will have tons of business.
6. The website is old-school. Optimize your pages for being linked to or embedded elsewhere. Put the site up on Facebook also. Tweet. The list goes on.
7. Short on-point videos. Lots of videos. Don't view yourself as primarily writers.
8. Post the raw material from everything. Record an interview - then post it. Reporter's notes - post them.

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

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by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 08:28:12 AM CDT

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All but #4.

CL is extremely closed about external search engines and such.  If you find some on the web, there is a good chance that they have already been made ineffective.  I went through this a couple of years ago.

CL discourages interactions by mail, they want to encourage community, live, that is. They seem to be able to monitor the system so that when a nationwide search takes place, they are onto it and kibosh the software.

I think links would be fine, but then anyone reading an online newspaper surely knows about CL.

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 10:38:09 AM CDT

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Adding 1 more

Not only don't worry about if what you are doiing is "journalism" as normally defined - be very worried if it is viewed as journalism. Pretty much by definition whatever is successful won't be viewed as journalism because journalism as practiced today is no longer economically viable.

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

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by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 16:01:02 PM CDT

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--

huffpo is involved

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by: sloanslake @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 06:36:28 AM CDT

...so it won't be a 'news' site, then. n/t

"Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"  

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by: Laughing Boy @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 10:06:38 AM CDT

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As much as Worldnet.....or the WT...

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 10:38:57 AM CDT

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Probably more.

Worldnet is awful.  The Times is much more of a news source than HP.

"Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"  

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by: Laughing Boy @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 11:06:31 AM CDT

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Yeah, just yanking our chain. Happy Fourth, LB.

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:45:15 PM CDT

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YOUR chain

Off to the beach before long to check out the bevy of beauties for my benefit. I think there is another B word I could have used......

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:48:42 PM CDT

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...

A bevy of beatiful, buxom babes, bathing on beaches. Go before big, bad, hurricanes blow in and burden you with ballooning bisasters :)

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by: Car 31 @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 17:02:36 PM CDT

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Very good.....

...and I realized today out there I left off bikinied. Still leaves two other B words....

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 16:18:28 PM CDT

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Well, only a bit

To give HuffPo some credit, Nico Pitney has been the go-to guy for the best news round-up on Iran since the election crisis began.  I don't know how much he's slept, but it can't be nearly enough for good health.

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result."  -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:14:15 PM CDT

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Absolutely

I think he was easily the #1 source for news on Iran. And I thinkt hat is why the MSM was so upset about his being asked a question at Obama's news conference - because in a weeks work he had clearly earned it. And that meant their years working their way up the ladder was matched by 1 person doing a great job - for a week.

It's like Michael Yon's reporting - way beyond what you get from the MSM.

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

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by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 15:59:31 PM CDT

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Pitney still is the #1 source on Iran

Great source to check every day, especially when the rest of the media is doing  nothing but covering the scandal du jour.

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by: BlueCat @ Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 11:32:30 AM CDT

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That's what upset them

Obama's team gave them a "hook" for the criticism by soliciting Pitney for a question before the presser.

Of course, ti wasn't a question that the WH had prepared, or even one that Pitney prepared...  The White House asked Pitney to solicit a question from the Iranian people he had contact with online...  Heaven forbid that The People get involved in actually asking tough questions of the world's leaders...  That's the job of The Press.

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result."  -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 11:15:23 AM CDT

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Ads

I would like the full page display ads as links on the pages.  Every few months I have the opportunity to pick up a print newspaper (such as the Post) and I find the full page ads to peruse.  Usually I will go the the store within the week to shop.  Without the ads I do not shop.

I have not understood why the newspapers and magazines have two sets of ad displays.  

This movie has been rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and destruction

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by: Pam Bennett @ Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 08:38:08 AM CDT