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More From the Newspaper Morgue

NOTE: Today (1/15/09) is Scripps Co.’s deadline for bids to buy the ailing Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper.

A 130-year-old cross-town snipe at the Rocky Mountain News from rival Denver Daily Republican:

“The News is, perhaps, the only paper in the country that works directly for the injury of the greatest interest of its State. But it does so ignorantly, and so is in a measure to be excused. Though, of course, a paper that pretends to lead and direct public opinion ought to have intelligent ideas on questions affecting the public interest.”

—Editorial, The Denver Daily Republican, 1879
(Thanks to alert WORDster Alan Kania)

More Newspaper Point-Counterpoint

“TWITTER: The dumbest innovation of the century? memo to Tweeters: we don’t care what you think.”
“NEWSPAPERS: Yes, print is troubled and some urban dailies are doomed. Still, on a screen or on dead trees, nothing shapes the conversation like facts.”

—The Power Index: Player or Pretender?
TIME magazine, Dec. 29, 2008-Jan. 5, 2009

Today in History
2007: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama launches his presidential campaign; 1991: Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraq from Kuwait begins; 1979: Shah flees Iran; 1976: Donny & Marie show premiers; 1953: Corvette introduced; 1945: Hitler takes to his bunker; 1920: Prohibition goes into effect; 1547: Ivan the Terrible crowned czar of Russia