Many Coloradans remember the Rocky Mountain News offering subscriptions for a penny and later claimed overwhelming readership. The News also stopped serving certain Colorado cities and neighboring states with economic ties to Denver. Evidently the reward for stupid business practice is Government bailout. Janet Reno and the Justice Department approved the JOA in Denver. There has never been the opportunity to evaluate the two Denver Newspapers on the merits.
Newspaper reading is, in many cases, a matter of convenience.
Anyone who has tried to read the Denver Post on an early morning commute, whether by bus, taxi, light rail or in a restaurant or office breakroom, must allow for the opening, spreading and un-folding of this unwiedly newspaper. The Post is aware and has acknowledged this problem but argued their content was better and it would be too expensive to re-tool into tabloid format. Chuck Green is very lucky the JOA was upheld. Chuck would qualify as the new editor of the Nebraska Farming News. Denver is not unlike other major cities in which newspaper wars have taken place.