Dead Media Beat Redux

"Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage."

(((*It takes so few words to kill off such a huge, historic enterprise.)))

From: Krishna Kumar

While the Dead Media Project may now itself be dead (resting?) I thought this might be amusing:

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_418298.html

No more telegrams, but they're shipping electronic funds like nobody's business

http://www.westernunion.com/info/osTelegram.asp

As of January 27th, you can't send out any telegrams through Western Union. And the scary part is, nobody noticed....

Regards,

Krishna