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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
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(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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REPUBLICANS
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December 04, 2008 09:27 PM UTC
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So what kind of CMA bullshit will John Temple put out this Saturday?
Oh well, at least we’ll be rid of Mike Rosen.
I subscribe to the Rocky, WSJ, IBD because I’m a newspaper junkie. But get most important news online from wsj.com, nytimes.com, wapo.
Maybe Anschultz will buy the Rocky, but I can’t see how that would be a good investment.
Where are the Moonies when we need them?
Neither the Rocky nor the Post is very well edited. Reporting in both papers is very lazy, hacky. Editorial pages are nothing to write home about, but I do like the Saturday media columns in the Rocky. Entertainment sections suck. Sports is ok for such a major sports town. Business sections have all but disappeared. Both papers are too Denver centric and reflect the liberal biases of their reporters, which drives away conservative readers.
The Rocky editorial page is atrocious but if they go under we will miss their coverage of state and local politics. They run circles around the Post in this area.
The Rocky will be missed. I hate to get stuck with the Post…
GM just announced that it was severely reducing its marketing budget. My first thought was there goes the newspapers who will lose that advertising…
Maybe W wasn’t that far off when he told everyone to go shopping…back in 01…
Sad day.
We get the Post but have noticed that the Rocky often scoops on the local stuff. I Just like everything else about the Post better. Do love Littwin on Saturdays, though. Besides the more rightie editorial slant, also can’t stand Rocky sports page.
Sorry to see any newspaper go. Can’t read news on a screen at my kitchen table over breakfast. Even if I had a laptop I wouldn’t want to.
I like the layout of the Post better and their editorial slant is more in my direction but the Rocky always gets my money when I buy a physical paper because of the local and politics coverage.
As for sports coverage, I don’t think there’s a single competent sports columnist in this entire city. The Post has Kizla and Paige, and those two are by far the worst but no one at the rocky is actually a good either.
quite the jackass and Woody loves to listen to himself riff but I like the general layout of the Post sports section, find it easier to find the box scores I’m looking for, TV listings for games etc. Occasionally have noticed better coverage of late night games the next day in the Post, too.
Usually don’t even read Kiz but today he had a nice story about Chauncey and his college coach, Patton. Chauncey is a jewel. We got really lucky. Things looked pretty grim before he showed up. Go Nuggets!
when a two-paper town becomes a one-paper town, if that is where this is headed. But the fact is that newspapers are becoming increasingly impossible to run profitably. No one has yet figured out the right model for running a profitable newspaper website and subscription numbers continue to fall.
Their political coverage will certainly be missed, though. Local and state-level coverage is the first thing that gets lost when papers go to a more wire-driven model, which is the trend.
Love her or hate her, Lynn Bartels always has the inside scoop. She beat the crap out of the Post every legislative session – even with three Post reporters at the capitol she would still whip ’em.
I’d say she’ll be missed, but I’m certain someone will offer her some (relatively) big bucks to kick up their political reporting.
…it had more editorial/opinion content (Who is a junkie?) and hands down better photographic staff.
I have hoped that the dailies could merge into one, great paper. It would be great if the Post could absorb some of the better talent at the Rocky (Littwin, to name one) and, with subtantially increased advertising and ciruclation revenues, make itself into an excellect publication.
I was expecting it when they merged publishing. The circulation is already handled by the same people on certain days. I hope they merge instead of the Rocky just dying.
But I have to admit that the main benefit of the Rocky to me is the comics, which are vastly superior to those of the Post.
One of the nice things about the weekend paper for Post readers is you get the Rocky comics too. And Littwin.
On one hand I do think it’s too bad when a paper goes under as it seems like the Rocky will.
But at the same time, I’ve never seen the point of two “major” papers in a city the size of Denver.
When I was a kid we had the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner (which now, coincidentally, is owned by Denver’s own Philip Anschutz) and now the Examiner has basically disappeared into a free daily tabloid-style newspaper. I don’t know anyone that really misses it…
Still, it’s unfortunate…
Craig’s List is killing their business model, and the blogs destroy their ability to be lazy.
Printjournalism has survived this far by laying off competent working journalists and stretching the ones they keep way too thin. If they won’t invest in coverage then they wind up with hackery.
Who needs their editorial punditry when online pundits kick their asses? And there is no use for their fake expertise on subjects when swarms of real experts have their own web communities. Even their distribution model is insane for the electronic age.
Newspapers are going to have to evolve or die.
Classifieds were the most profitible part of the paper – that’s gone.
And as you say, they don’t offer much that can’t be found elsewhere. If you want politics yes they scoop sometimes, but I’d guess more political news breaks here than anywhere else.
The blogs, including this one, largely just pass along what a newspaper has reported. Just look at the topics this week. The blogs depend on actual reporters, people who get paid to find things out and write about them. It makes it possible for us to read the stuff and then put in our two bits, or less in some cases.
Don’t sell the papers short. We’re all going to be much poorer without them. I, for one, will miss the RMN.
Pols has put up a lot of diaries about issues or breaking news that later gets put in the Rocky or Post. A lot of the time it is the other way around.
and my coffee in the morning. Can’t function without them. I love real newspapers and real books and hope I never have to read every damn thing off a screen.
One of the things that impressed me about Oldest Daughter’s Husband Number Two is that he subscribes to the paper and reads it. Hubby One never did.
It’s a generational change, no newspaper and Coke instead of coffee.
Better newsroom better reporting.
And while I generally disagree with the Rocky’s editorial stances, they are at least well-thought out and presented.
The Post on the other hand is conservative without being reasoned. The absence of Ewegan has made the editorial page of the Post even worse.
I am guessing that the Rocky cease publication in 30 days.
My guess is that the Denver Post, with Singleton’s hand in the writing under Dan Haley’s name, will now be publishing editorials only rivaled by the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
As long as the business model is to produce a paper version and an online version there is not a good way to succeed.
The best model at this point in time is what the TV stations are doing. A full online version that covers much more than is on the air; along with indepth reporting of the stories that air.
I can’t understand why the newspapers print a 4 or 5 line “story” that has no depth and no “how, what, where, why and how”. And, put the same tiny story online instead of a full filled out story.
USA Today is starting to change it’s business model to be more web centered; and it shows too.
The final story was written when the owners got rid of the reason the newspapers are called the newspapers; they got rid of the news reporters.
I am not going to knock the papers for not trying. The Rocky tried an online version back in the 90’s, which I subscribed to. The problem was they were ahead of the times. The hardware, servers and home users, did not have the horsepower to do the job. They tried though.
Unfortunately they are trying to print a newspaper online. Not an publish an online newspaper.
I think also that the newspapers need to include video and podcasts in many of their stories. Once they are on the web there is no reason to restrict themselves to text.
so some of their stuff is/was getting there. The coverage on Doug Bruce for instance, video of the “tap” accompanied by audio of the committee hearing testimony.
It’s a good idea though I’m not aware of seeing video on the Post‘s site. Who the hell are we, DavidThi808?
Wouldn’t it be great to see one of the local Denver channels pick up the Rocky’s newsroom and integrate it into their operation?
I wonder if CBS has thought about it at all. They’ve done a fair amount together, especially during the election. Channel 12 (possibly 6-can’t keep them straight) had many programs that were joint. Good idea.