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.

  • Al Gore, inventor of the Internet
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 47
  • Susasn Cantrell
    Rate: +1 -1
      Rating: 113
  • It\'s a series of tubes
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      Rating: 140
  • Teh internets
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      Rating: 123
  • Just don\'t say it\'s still alive
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      Rating: 95
  • Slack-ass online department
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      Rating: -11
  • Evil that lurks in the heart
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      Rating: 91
  • Got too friendly w/ Cheney
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      Rating: 68
  • The smart bomb blew up
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      Rating: 100
  • The Shitty Afternoon Slot
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      Rating: 77
  • I did
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      Rating: 106
  • Illegal Immigrants
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      Rating: 90
  • Al Gore
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      Rating: 159
  • World of Warcraft
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      Rating: 137
  • Popcorn Fridays caused Q4 deficit
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      Rating: 54
  • craigslist
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      Rating: 124
  • readers all appeared in Obits
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      Rating: 100
  • DaVIDJ
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      Rating: 121
  • The Star
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      Rating: 90
  • City Desk surfing too much porno!
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      Rating: 99
  • The leering ghost of John McCain
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      Rating: 105
  • Mush-brained editors
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      Rating: 97
  • Never breaking any news
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      Rating: 99
  • Thorns and Flowers
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      Rating: 97
  • 1-1 reporter/editor ratio
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      Rating: 112
  • Too many sexual harassment payouts
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      Rating: 103
  • David Louie
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      Rating: 112
  • Yet another Rodeo Parade
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      Rating: 79
  • The sheriff
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      Rating: 93
  • Fat-assed city desk
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      Rating: 109
  • Your Mom
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      Rating: 38
  • Some shitbird at Gannett
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      Rating: 76
  • That idiot in Advertising
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      Rating: 100
  • Readers
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      Rating: 56
  • Mark Evans
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      Rating: 179
  • Jim Click, et al
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      Rating: 105
  • Reporters who didn\'t
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      Rating: 96
  • Squeaky Fromme
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      Rating: 83
  • it was suicide.
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      Rating: 70
  • World of Warcraft
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      Rating: 80
  • Heywood Jablome
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      Rating: -44
  • Vampiricus Socialus Tucsonicus
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      Rating: 78
  • Bush's economic plan
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      Rating: 156
  • Had to save $37 million for Dubow
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      Rating: 102
  • The unfilled publisher's office
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      Rating: 23
  • Jan Brewer
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      Rating: 80
  • Chihak leaving
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      Rating: 139
  • Plus sections
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      Rating: 102
  • Don\'t flatter yourself, Red Star
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      Rating: 114
  • Chester
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      Rating: 92
  • Commenters who forgot their meds
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      Rating: 91
  • that garden gnome
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      Rating: 88
  • Calexico
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      Rating: 95
  • Lee execs
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      Rating: 56
  • Bob Walkup
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      Rating: 98
  • time
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      Rating: 62
  • Gracia Martore
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      Rating: 88
  • TNI
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      Rating: 148
  • Too many Bushmills for Jameson
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      Rating: -16
  • Greedy Gannett
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      Rating: 86
  • Killing trees is SO 1988
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      Rating: 36
  • Jan Brewer
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      Rating: 93
  • What the hell is a newspaper?
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      Rating: 96
  • One boring story too many
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      Rating: 77
  • the Minutemen
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      Rating: 90
  • Bastards w/ pigshit for imagination
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      Rating: 142
  • cheap beer and regret
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      Rating: 84
  • you did, you bastard
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      Rating: 81
  • Senior Editor for Doing Nothing
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      Rating: 101
  • Col. Mustard, library, candlestick
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      Rating: 96
  • Interwebs killed the dead-tree star
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      Rating: 129
  • Liberty Valance
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      Rating: 101
  • Jim Rowley
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      Rating: 82
  • Dylan Smith
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      Rating: 104
  • Goldarg\'s Mom
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      Rating: 105
  • Johnjay and Rich
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      Rating: 138
  • Kimble watching Girls Gone Wild
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      Rating: -61
  • Chihak found something better
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      Rating: 118
  • Tara Connell
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      Rating: 50
  • Bob Fucking Dickey
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      Rating: 243
  • Obama forgot newspaper bailout
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      Rating: 67
  • Jim at Gannett Blog
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      Rating: 130
  • Kansas City.
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      Rating: 70
  • Rio Nuevo
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      Rating: 106
  • Do-nothing senior editors
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      Rating: 62
  • too many liberal editors
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      Rating: 70
  • Internet got unplugged
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      Rating: 99
  • John Justice
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      Rating: 106
  • Jack Ruby
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      Rating: 13
  • Craig Dubow
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      Rating: 213
  • Matt Fitzsimmons voting here
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      Rating: 115
  • Fucking Metromix
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      Rating: 96
  • corporate leeches
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      Rating: 76
  • Gannett\'s interweb gerbils all died
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      Rating: 75
  • The exhumed corpse of Jack Palance
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      Rating: -52
  • Bono
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      Rating: 55
  • Meeting set to discuss issue
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      Rating: 61
  • Shitty big hits
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      Rating: 139
  • The Man
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      Rating: 138
  • Abandoning its conservative roots.
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      Rating: 104
  • Lazy ad reps
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      Rating: 305
  • Conspiracy by Red Star & Jodirae
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      Rating: 16
  • Communist Reporters
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      Rating: 86
  • Gannett
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      Rating: 154
  • Vast right-wing conspiracy
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      Rating: 59
  • Those drunks over in Sports
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      Rating: 82
  • Red Star
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      Rating: 95
  • giving a shit
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      Rating: 94
  • Not the deputy!
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      Rating: 63
  • Your Mom
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      Rating: 54
  • Not enough pet stories
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      Rating: 122
  • 15 redesigns a year
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      Rating: 98
  • Shot newspaper just to watch it die
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      Rating: 26
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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