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With all the hubbub about the launch of TBD, the barely-floating wreckage that is the Washington Times has been widely ignored over the past couple of months. But DCRTV reports today that the paper’s last rites have all but been delivered — according to the blog’s sources, the Times was lucky to even make it past last Friday, as a “press release [regarding the last edition of the paper] was reportedly ready for distribution when an apparent last minute and revised offer to buy the paper was submitted.”

And to think, Ronald Reagan’s favorite periodical and the “instrument in spreading the truth about God” almost made it to 30.

We mean no offense to the folks who still make a living working at the Times (and who will probably need to find new jobs soon) when we say this, but calling the Times a “newspaper” at this point is awfully generous. The Times only has half a staff, a newsroom filled with snakes and mice, no President or Publisher, no sports section and a board with little to no experience in the newspaper business which reportedly couldn’t care less about the publication.