Denver’s pretty fortunate in its newspapers; I wouldn’t call either the Rocky Mountain News or the Denver Post world-class, but they’re better than a great many major newspapers in this country. (Detroit? Uggh.) That still puts them well below the papers we enjoyed in Canada, but the Great White North seems to be unusually blessed in that department. The key thing is that the Denver papers, unlike many, have a number of writers worth reading; and one of them, News columnist Bill Johnson, is currently on assignment in Iraq, and sending back good material. I recently discovered his Dec. 11 piece, covering his initial impressions of Baghdad; it’s an interesting column all the way around, but particularly so for his report of an event that didn’t get any other play in the US media, so far as I know: an anti-terrorism rally in the city’s Furdoise Square. From his description, it doesn’t sound like all that much, but hey, it’s a start.
