On who brought down newspapers

While we here at America's Fish will be the first among those who have made living from them to admit that newspapers have been at times slow to innovate and frustratingly tepid when it comes to covering big issues like politics and the environment, in this culture of job losses and fear of more job losses for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives to champion job losses as partly his doing is just stupid.

From the Denver Post:

"Who killed the Rocky Mountain News? We're all part of it, for better or worse, and I argue it's mostly for the better," [congressman Jared] Polis said at the Netroots Nation speaker series in Westminster, according to a digital recording of the event posted at www.coloradopulse.org. "The media is dead and long live the new media."

No democracy is better off when a newspaper dies. Disagree with us, call us too liberal or too conservative (we were called both at the Rocky Mountain News), or deride our lack of innovation, but never for a second believe that fewer voices are better just because they're newer. A politician thumping his chest over helping some of his constituents lose their jobs? Brilliant! What will you crazy innovators think of next? Read more here.