M.E. Sprengelmeyer won't be sending any such e-mails. Once the Rocky's top political reporter, he spent his life savings to purchase a New Mexico weekly, the Guadalupe County Communicator. And as detailed in a new CNN report, Sprengelmeyer defied conventional wisdom by expanding the paper's reporting muscle even as he killed its website, because he thought it cannibalized circulation.
The Communicator does have a Facebook page, though, and in reference to the CNN piece, Sprengelmeyer quotes that great journalist Frank Zappa. "To Armes, to Armes, hooray, that's great...," he writes, in a reference Squarestatemedia.com's Nathan Armes and the Zappa tune "Dumb All Over." But Sprengelmeyer's looking anything but stupid these days. Check out CNN's take below:
