The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139875   Message #3211441
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
23-Aug-11 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: 'Irish Post' closes.
Subject: RE: 'Irish Post' closes.
Would love to believe that, LadyKat - but I'm afraid the writing is pretty much on the wall for printed newspapers. They're dying like flies. They just can't compete with the web, especially for updatable things and last-minute events that miss a press deadline.

So sorry to hear about Rocky Mountain News too - I would have loved the history parts. The Oregonian (which I used to read when I visited my mum there) was always great with stuff like that, and probably still is. (They ran Matt Groening's strip long before The Simpsons were even a collective twinkle.) A terrific paper.. subtext, long may they continue...

Anyway, I think the Post has probably been supplanted with assorted websites. But it's not the same, is it? One of the treats of my life were the clippings my mum used to send across the sea to me from the Oregonian (and before that, and San Fran Chronicle). How can emigrants' mums do that now? It was always a taste of Home. Easy to forget that the passing of an outdated format also signals the end of much else too.