Job losses are mounting everywhere, and this sight—employees of The Rocky Mountain News reacting to wordthat today’s edition would be the last for the 150-year-old paper—isall too common. ButI hope I always find itdeeply affecting, and less common.Rocky Mountain News foto.jpg

David Gibson is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and an occasional contributor to Commonweal.

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