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News & ArtsMonday, August 10, 2009
Media The Pompeii of Newspapers
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Today on Reflections of a Newsosaur, Alan D. Mutter writes about the website for the Rocky Mountain News, the newspaper shuttered almost six months ago: Its website hasn't been touched since its last day. Except for the weather (there's a weather icon, clearly on a feed from somewhere else, in the top portion of some pages). Mutter calls the site "frozen in time" and "an uncomfortably maudlin reminder of the paper's demise." It's true: It's like poking around in a dead kid's bedroom.
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What a strange thing to say. Are you implying that Pompeii and the Rocky Mountain News brought divine retribution upon themselves for raping angels?
...just saying, indeed.
...just saying, indeed.
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