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During my years at the Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency, I repeatedly admonished the powers that be that it was not the speed of the internet that was driving their slow death. Instead I argued that it was the ability of anyone with an internet connection to go directly to source documents and refute their interpretation of the biased interpretation that AP, LAT or NYT had already applied to a story.

For example, while their local scribes were rehashing sob story NYT articles on the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill, I simply went on line and downloaded the bill. After ten pages and an upset stomach I fired off an e-mail to Temple and Miller suggesting that they base their stories on easily available source documents. 

That is the distinction between posters at RMR, the conservative blogesphere and Old Line Media sources. Bloggers generally are able to bring personal industry or live experiences on a subject to the table as well as a perpensity in their search for the truth to drive deep toward source documents. Those that don't quickly become laughing stock as they ruminate with obvious flaws in their logic and conclusions and begin to look just like the graduates of Journalism school on a misssion to change the world instead of report on it.

Upon retirement, I've slowly ventured into the direction that I believe dead tree media will eventually move. It started with building a simple personal home page that I could use as a vehicle to quickly access those 20 trusted web pages I seemed to go to a dozen times a day from any computer I might be near.   

More and more friends asked for the URL and the number of unique hits has continued to evolve. That is the origin of Right On Colorado.com . It is artistically crude as I focussed on content more than looks. Accordingly it has nearly 150 rss feeds and nearly 1,000 video or still picture links most of whom are drawn on randomly evey time you open a page.

The site provides perpetual links to the many contributors to RMR, PPC and RMAB. As the site continues to evolve, your comments, criticism and suggestions are welcome. Particularly plese notify me if you see anything on the site that fails to provide propper atribution for creative and analytical work.

Thanks again for each of your contributions as intelligent, informed writers.  

Merlin

merlin@rightoncolorado.com