On the death of newspapers

A great rant, this, about the bankruptcy of the Chicago Sun-Times:

I worked for these folks, and continue to work for the company now mercifully free of them on a freelance basis, just in case anybody was unclear where my burning rage at newspaper mismanagement that then calls itself a "revenue decline" or blames "changing tastes of readers" comes from. Who needs the Internet to kill journalism when you have clowns like this walking away virtually unscathed?

Read it all.