On 6 December 2002,
Dagen had a debt of 34.9
million DKK, and
bankruptcy was declared on 13 December 2002.
Peter Linck was the creator of the newspaper, and the
editor was
Kresten Schultz Jørgensen. The newspaper had more media coverage than it itself was able to cover about its bankruptcy. The coverage from other
media was intense. Many used the newspaper's own
mottos for jokes about its bankruptcy, a famous one was "
til folk som kan læse, fra folk som ikke kan regne" (
Danish: "''for people who can read, from people who can't count''") as a reference to the overwhelming bankruptcy it suffered. == Mottos ==