Fate of Rocky Mountain News to be announced

You would have to think that Web producers or copy editors might have a shot, too.

 

Apparently, not. And I just red Pete's thread this morning where they fired the Web Editor too. No one is safe anymore.

 

Did I scan the Post memo too fast? Because I didn't see Ringolsby's name on there. I'm not a huge fan of his, but I figured the Post would snap him up.

 

If I read it correctly, those were people who were hired previously but had not been named. Agreements reached, etc.

 

MH, prayers to you and your colleagues.

May you find something equally rewarding as this, be it in newspapers or out. And if out, hopefully in a more stable industry. I can't imagine what the past few months were like.

Good karma to the west... stop when you hit the big mountains.

 

Well good to see 10 of them have found work.

 

It will be interesting to see who they pick up in sports.

 

Think this is one of the biggest wake-up calls that not one single one of us is safe. None.

 

The Denver Post axed the top $$$$$$$$ Web editor, but they might find they need blue-collar producers..........

 

I would be very surprised if Ringolsby winds up at The Post.

 

Wow! The lack of warning, as evidenced by that one reporter's comment about her Saturday story, smacks of something out of a Hitchcock movie or something where the bad guy promises not to hurt his victim and says everything's fine and then when the victim turns around he shoots him or her in the back of the head.

I worked for a Scripps paper for 8 years and at one point had faith in their executives. But after the last all-hands meeting I sat in on just before I left I smelled the bullshit from miles away. At some point a bunch of multimedia heads took over, grew that division, namely The Food Network and HGTV, into cash cows and then waited for the last invested Scripps family member (Charles E. Scripps) to die two years ago before opting to execute the newspaper division mercilessly by splitting the company into two stock entities on July 1st, 2008.

Let's see, you don't think this bit of news the day it was announced that stock for the two companies -- Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) and E.W. Scripps (NYSE: SSP) -- could begin trading didn't help set in motion today's news? "Scripps Network Interactive closed trading at $42.50 a share and E.W. Scripps closed trading at $3.90 a share."

Now these greedy SOBs had the ammunition they needed to gut the newspaper side and eventually shut down its oldest and largest paper.

Sorry for the rant, but I have absolutely no sympathy for Boehne-head and his cronies. Yes, SNI stock has dropped more than 50 percent since that June day (it was at $20.48 a share an hour ago), but it's still doing much better than SSP, which is at a 52-week low of $1.07 a share.

I'll try to cool off now and wish the best to Mile High, Tracy and all the others at the RMN who now find themselves on the job hunt.

 

Krieger was a great hire. They should hire Butch Brooks who has been kicking The Post's ass on college coverage for about 20+ years.