There Goes The Sun: A Newspaper

The New York Sun bowed out today.

It had been coming, noted Andrew Cusack almost a month ago.

Jeff Bercovici of Conde Naste's Portfolio.com had a rundown on the newspaper's eulogies.

I keep thinking of that quote in the film Citizen Kane, "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."

Less of that these days.  More of us, bloggers, though one wonders where the print ends and the news begins.

From The Gray Lady:

"The Sun had a staff a small fraction of the size that New York City papers typically rely on, and some said they worked in a 19th-century building with 19th-century conveniences. They said the paper’s computers and telephones were problem-prone, the fire alarms sometimes sounded for no reason, the elevator stalled regularly and the bathroom plumbing backed up. They said they needed fans on their desks in the summer and space heaters in the winter."

But what fun, and they weren't without their share of "scoops" and an expansive editorial policy that will be sorely missed.

A newspaper.