Just before Christmas, the Rhino Times wrote about the long extensive death of local media in Guilford County and the fact that Triad City Beat looks very likely to cease to exist soon. It’s expected to join a long line of newspapers that have gone out of business in the last decade and a half. The publication, which longtime editor Brian Clarey is leaving at the end of the year, is attempting to raise $20,000 to continue operations, but it doesn’t sound hopeful for that decade-plus-old publication.