IFC Media Project

So, tonight's episode was pretty cool. As I mentioned before, it was about the death of newspapers, but rather than run some boring story that repeated all the same sentiments everyone's has already heard, they had a mosaic of a lot of different perspectives.

They included a former journalist-turned-recycling plant employee talking about how paper products have dropped 15-20 percent in the past year, and how a lot of that was because of newspapers.

They talked to a woman in Idaho who's been delivering newspapers for 50 years. They talked to the national champion "Paperboy" arcade game player. And there were several others.

The episode led off with a feature on the demise of the Rocky Mountain News. Some of the content was taken from the various videos that were shot on the final day and could be found on the RMN website. But they also talked to John Temple, the former ME, and he provided something of an early postscript.

The one scene that was the most surreal was -- when they were taking the signage off the building -- see the "Rocky" being lowered by crane down to the ground.