You bastards!

I know who
killed the Tucson Citizen ...

October 15, 1870 - May 16, 2009

We're all sad - and pissed - to see the Tucson Citizen go the way of so many newspapers lately. I, for one, am certainly not above laying blame and casting aspersions. So join me in a drink and a round of good old-fashioned trash-talk.

Assign blame with the form below. Click the [+] icons to rate responsibility.

  • too many liberal editors
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 96
  • Communist Reporters
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 91
  • The exhumed corpse of Jack Palance
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      Rating: 40
  • Kimble watching Girls Gone Wild
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      Rating: 138
  • Lazy ad reps
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      Rating: 104
  • Bush's economic plan
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      Rating: 113
  • Bastards w/ pigshit for imagination
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      Rating: 126
  • Bob Fucking Dickey
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      Rating: 89
  • Greedy Gannett
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      Rating: 94
  • Don\'t flatter yourself, Red Star
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      Rating: 96
  • Chihak leaving
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      Rating: 70
  • Red Star
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      Rating: 100
  • Heywood Jablome
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      Rating: 25
  • Obama forgot newspaper bailout
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      Rating: 80
  • World of Warcraft
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 104
  • DaVIDJ
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      Rating: 101
  • Readers
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      Rating: -2
  • Internet got unplugged
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      Rating: 76
  • Lee execs
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      Rating: 91
  • The Shitty Afternoon Slot
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      Rating: 89
  • Meeting set to discuss issue
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      Rating: 87
  • Mush-brained editors
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      Rating: 101
  • Johnjay and Rich
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      Rating: 101
  • The unfilled publisher's office
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      Rating: 13
  • Vast right-wing conspiracy
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      Rating: 91
  • City Desk surfing too much porno!
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      Rating: 110
  • Yet another Rodeo Parade
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      Rating: 85
  • Your Mom
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      Rating: 100
  • Shot newspaper just to watch it die
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      Rating: 95
  • The sheriff
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      Rating: 117
  • Bono
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      Rating: 96
  • Tara Connell
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      Rating: 85
  • Liberty Valance
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      Rating: 94
  • The Man
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      Rating: 104
  • Illegal Immigrants
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      Rating: 94
  • Jack Ruby
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      Rating: 72
  • Killing trees is SO 1988
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      Rating: 16
  • Susasn Cantrell
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      Rating: 119
  • Shitty big hits
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      Rating: 99
  • it was suicide.
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      Rating: 99
  • Conspiracy by Red Star & Jodirae
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      Rating: 68
  • craigslist
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      Rating: 103
  • Too many Bushmills for Jameson
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      Rating: 28
  • Gannett
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      Rating: 21
  • Jim Rowley
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      Rating: 127
  • TNI
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      Rating: 126
  • Commenters who forgot their meds
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      Rating: 94
  • Teh internets
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      Rating: 92
  • I did
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      Rating: 86
  • Popcorn Fridays caused Q4 deficit
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      Rating: 49
  • David Louie
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      Rating: 81
  • Not the deputy!
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      Rating: 97
  • Matt Fitzsimmons voting here
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      Rating: 86
  • Kansas City.
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      Rating: 106
  • Your Mom
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      Rating: 105
  • The leering ghost of John McCain
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      Rating: 16
  • Jim Click, et al
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      Rating: 86
  • Vampiricus Socialus Tucsonicus
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      Rating: 81
  • Interwebs killed the dead-tree star
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      Rating: 108
  • Abandoning its conservative roots.
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      Rating: 112
  • Craig Dubow
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      Rating: 121
  • Got too friendly w/ Cheney
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      Rating: 95
  • Col. Mustard, library candlestick
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      Rating: 55
  • The Star
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      Rating: 2
  • Slack-ass online department
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      Rating: 48
  • Al Gore, inventor of the Internet
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      Rating: 90
  • Squeaky Fromme
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      Rating: 84
  • World of Warcraft
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 91
  • Goldarg\'s Mom
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      Rating: 99
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Yeah! Screw them! Dontcha feel ever-so-much better now?

Do you know who killed the Citizen?

If you worked there, or read the paper, or commented on the website, I'm sure you have an opinion (I sure as hell do).
"I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" * 

Thanks for sharing the pain.

So what now?

"I'm going to cut out drinking and swearing and everything connected with the crazy newspaper business! Honey, I'll never even read a newspaper." * 

Rant, howl at the moon, stomp my feet. Drink. Drink more.

"You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years." * 

Oh yeah, the Citizen alums are on Facebook now. You know, because it's required by law. So join the group.

For more info on the Citizen, check the Final Edition