Where’s the competition?
When the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post merged together you no longer had a choice in where you can get you
Before if you were not happy with one and wanted to cancel you paper, they would work with you so you will not leave. That is impossible now. With EchoStar and Direct TV merge you will no longer have completive prices in you cable decisions. Same things happen with telephones companies. Then when they are too big, they are busted up by the government for being a monopoly. Then they start over again and again.
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It doesn't matter which "newspaper" you subscribe to, or buy from a vendor, any more. All you're going to get is an ad flier with a little local and a lot of wire service fluff (you know, the stuff news used to be made of) tossed in to keep the sheeple happy.
There is no Newspaper published in Denver anymore.
Posted by Joseph S on October 8, 2007 04:02 PMWhy not ditch the paper entirely and get all your news online?
Posted by AP feed linked here on October 8, 2007 05:32 PMBehind all politics is the power of special interests. This is the bane of republic representative government. Our founding fathers knew this and set in place measures to prevent it. Now it seems to be ignored by the very representatives we elect to insure fairness and a open and competitive freemarket system.
They also knew that the tyranny they came to these shores to escape would follow them because, that tyranny is an ancient insidous ideaology that is always waiting to eradicate freedom if given a chance. Some of them thought it the materialization of evil and, I would agree.
This evil, if you will allow that description, is at the very core of the power and corruption of those who zealously use every deception and lie to advance the mercantile interests or the political agendas that their almost religious fanantical beliefs justify, with no care about what damage is done or who's freedoms they trample into the fetid swamp of their origin.
This, as a matter of course, must involve the cooperation of a free press which was intentionally created by the those who wrote the first ten amendments to our costitution, also known as the Bill of Roghts, as a foil against the usurption of those rights.
All to often these days, the free press forgets that purpose and takes on the trappings of advocates for zealots in their quest to suppress freedom which is hiden behind falsified claims that it is for the good of the people.
This is why a free press must not blindly advocate but rather, rigorously investigate all evidence and information about, and report the truth of , issues that directly effect the public's best interests. This is the primary reason freedom of the press was included in the Bill of Rights.
When they quit doing so they insult those who clearly estabished that freedom as a guard against the resurgence of tyranny and those who fought and died to defend and protect this United States of America which was founded to insure the blessings of Freedom, Justice and Liberty for all the people and which is the best defence against tyranny ever created amongst men and women.
Posted by Allen Campbell on October 9, 2007 08:41 AMThe entire newspaper industry is in deep financial trouble and they have created it themselves by buying up their competitors and thereby stifling competition which created their wealth in the first place. They rewrote laws that were set up to protect them and now they're paying for it. Self destruction based on greed.
Posted by Stan B on October 9, 2007 10:32 AMI agree with Joseph--there is no newspaper in Denver anymore.
The ridiculous cost of a yearly subscription only pays for the advertising (the largest part ). Hardly worth it.
Posted by c on October 9, 2007 04:28 PMLeroy,
You have too much time in your hands!!