Kudos to the Denver Post for belatedly assigning one of its finest reporters, David Migoya, to take on a severely underreported story -- the likelihood that thousands of Coloradans who currently get free television will lose the ability to do so once a switchover from analog to digital TV signals is finally complete.
"The Digital Conversion Will Leave Some Coloradans in the Dark," the January 21 Message column, focused on one area resident whose reception will almost certainly vamoose due to
Harry Whipple.
The only surprise in yesterday afternoon's announcement that Harry Whipple would no longer be in charge of the Denver Newspaper Agency was the identity of his successor: former Denver Post publisher Gerald Grilly, who's coming out of retirement to take the gig. Indeed, the February 26 press conference announcing that the Rocky Mountain News would shut down the next day provided graphic evidence of Whipple's fading power. Instead of appearing on the stage at the Denver Newspaper A
