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C. Trent Rosecrans, a former Reds beat writer for the Cincinnati Post and reporter for 1530Homer.com. He is a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Pro Football Writers of America. Rosecrans was voted "Best Journalist" by the readers of Cincinnati's CityBeat Magazine and has also won numerous writing awards on the national and state levels.
Just like us old relics, you know we are going to disappear but you hate to see it happen. Today it is all about money and technology but you know I still enjoy getting my old wax LP's out and listen to them, just for nostalgia. This was a really good story about a piece of history shutting down.
Here is what I posted on Joe's site. It summarizes the life and death of the Post, and how I feel:
Joe, thanks for the great epitaph for the Post. I was a member of a Post family until about the time I graduated from high school. My dad drove to Dayton to work every day, and didn’t have time to read the morning paper before he left. So we got the Post in the afternoon. I grew up reading Earl Lawson and Pat Harmon. Then, my dad got a job in Cincinnati and we switched to the Enquirer.
I have not lived in Cincinnati for a long time. But for the past 10-12 years I have been reading the Post on line. Especially the wonderful blogs on the Reds and Bearcats by Marc Lancaster, Trent Rosecrans, and Josh Katzowitz. And great columns from Lonnie Wheeler. They always seemed a step ahead of the Enquirer guys.
As luck would have it, I was in Cincy over the weekend. On Monday, as we were leaving town to drive back to Chicago, I searched in vain for a copy of the last Post. When we finally got home, the first thing I did was to go on-line and read what the final edition.
I am back at work today, and the reality has sunk in - no Post header on the Cincinnati.com website. No Lonnie “Whee-lah,” Trent Rosecrans, or Josh Katzowitz. It’s like the neighbor down the street has died - a piece of life just fading away.
It’s just incredibly sad. RIP Post.
Mine was the Dayton Daily News and the Journal Herald growing up. Dad read the paper every night when he got home, and then I read Hal McCoy. I did'nt even know about the morning paper till I started reading it in study hall. Then they combined to The Dayton-Journal Herald, and later after I moved away it went back to the Dayton Daily I guess.