The ongoing feud between The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post over their joint operating agreement and the perilous financial situations of both newspapers became far more public last week when details of a letter accusing the Post's management of inappropriately using money in the JOA fund to meet its own payroll costs was published in the Rocky. Subsequently, Post officials said they would not print the Rocky if new owners take over.
The dispute appears to be getting more bitter as the economic situation for both papers declines.
For many years now, Denver has been one of the few major metro areas still supporting two dailies. And people have long expected that one of them would become extinct -- or at least online only -- by now.
The Rocky is for sale and, as publisher John Temple wrote today, "If no buyer is found, the paper very well may close soon, almost 150 years after it was founded."
I'd hate to see the Rocky fold. I've enjoyed reading it for more than 30 years. But the market will determine whether that happens or not.
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