“ John Temple, former editor and publisher of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, is telling the poignant story of the newspaper’s death. So far, he’s blaming on the newspaper’s delay in embracing the Internet. Oddly, he’s not talking about the fact that, as a JOA market, Denver was clearly not going to support two major newspapers. The war with the Post resulted in slashed ad and circulation rates, which likely would have killed one of the papers even absent the Internet. It’s an interesting, sad story, but his conclusions are all-too-familiar and easy — the Rocky was to slow to adapt to the Internet, but there was precious little offered by way of real alternatives. „
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