Fate of Rocky Mountain News to be announced

At my age the memory gets fuzzy, but it was Sunday Dec. 8, 1991 that the Morning News purchased the Times Herald, and I do not believe they published a paper that evening. The final edition was that morning, nobody knowing that it would be the final edition. I can remember being at the winter meetings and being the one who told the Times Herald writer, and our Mavericks writer told the Time Herald Mavericks write about it that night in LA where the Mavs were playing the Lakers. If I am wrong about that I stand corrected, but I pretty much remember that.

 

I wouldn't say Dallas was tough. Dallas was fun. The three papers had a great deal of respect for each other and at the time the ownership wasn't afriad to spend money. To this date among my closest friends are Phil Rogers, who covered the Rangers for the Times Herald most of the time I was in Dallas, and Paul Hagen, who was on the beat for Fort Worth when I first moved to Dallas. We traveled together, shared rides to the ballpark, ate together and believe it or not had a few cocktails together. What we never did was share a sliver of news and we never talked about who had what story. We would talk about the team and news of the day just like everyone else who read the papers. No, Dallas was great fun. Seattle in the early 80s was good. LA in the late 70s was different but professional respectful.

 

Legwold is good people... So is Rasizer...

 

There were several crazy feuds between Post and Rocky employees back in the day. I'm under the impression that departures, beat changes and the JOA have calmed things considerably over the last decade.

 

Simers had his moments with the competition during his Broncos beat days.

 

IIRC, the Post had to double-team him to keep up.

 

I recall hearing about some serious friction on the Nuggets back in the day, maybe in the Krieger vs. Mike Monroe period?

 

I see we're at the point in the wake where the whiskey's taken hold and folks are telling the old stories again.
Good to see.

 

Love this section from the AP story on the Rocky:

Yeah, if you don't hire reporters.

 

That blew my mind too.

Citizen journalists. Or unpaid interns. One or the other.

 

Tracy mentioned two of the better guys you are going to meet in this business in Phil and Paul. One of the things I remember about the good old days was the notes network. Made for great Sunday reads in many municipalities.

 

From Eddie Pells' AP commentary that was on the wire earlier this afternoon.

On Friday, the competition ended. The tabloid has gone away and there will be only one option in Denver for those who want to know a little more than what they learned when they watched the game on TV, heard the score on cable, read about it on the Internet.
Every day, with news of bankruptcy filings, vanishing advertising dollars, the Internet replacing newsprint, stories are filled with quotes from experts sounding warnings about how having fewer options is worse for the readers.
In Denver, we now get a chance to learn about it firsthand.
And for those who grew up reading a newspaper in the Rocky Mountains, that walk to the patio will never be the same.