Reporting on last week's closure of the 150-year-old Denver Rocky Mountain News, Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!, 2/27/09) give us the financial backstory behind the fact that "the newspaper industry is going through a major, major upheaval in these last few days": "A lot of the papers ended up being bought in recent years, and their owners took on heavy debt to buy these papers out, and now theyâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢re finding now that the debt, the burden of the debt, plus the declining ad revenues, is creating major problems for them." That said, Gonzalez tells why he is "especially [...]