Posted by chicagomedia.org on March 03, 2009 at 14:49:34:
Lincicome shut down in Denver
Posted by Ed Sherman
at 3/3/2009 5:54 AM CST on Chicago Business
The closing of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver last week silences Bernie Lincicome for now, but hopefully not forever.
Chicago readers will remember Mr. Lincicome spent nearly two decades as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. While you probably didn't always agree with what he wrote--I'm not sure Mr. Lincicome always agreed with what he wrote--his prose was second to none. Nobody could turn a phrase like Mr. Lincicome.
He moved on to Denver and still was pounding out columns until the realities of the newspaper business struck him and his colleagues. In his final Rocky column, Mr. Lincicome wrote:
"It is impossible now not to think of endings, of those I witnessed and wrote, others who faced the finish, most with tears, even the hardest of men. I recall that little knuckle of a shortstop, Larry Bowa, weeping in a scruffy laundry room hastily set up for his departure from the Cubs. They all cry at the summing up."
I ran into Mr. Lincicome at the Super Bowl, and we talked about his future knowing his paper was on the ledge. Even though he is 68, he said he still wants to continue writing.
"I think I still have something to say," he said.
Let's hope Mr. Lincicome gets a chance to say it.