Final edition

"Change is inevitable."
- Benjamin Disraeli (from QuotationsPage.com)

In our ever changing world, change is one of the few constants, as the city of Birmingham, Alabama, saw a couple of weeks ago with the closing of one of its two main newspapers. On Friday, September 23, 2005, the Birmingham Post-Herald, put out its final issue. Formed in 1950 from a merger of the Birmingham Post and Herald, it had been the afternoon paper for the metropolitan area for several years. But the days of the afternoon paper have come and gone. In the face of competition from both print, broadcast, and internet, some operations simply just don't survive.

About a half-dozen stories have been posted on the metro section of the Post-Herald's website, including an excellent analysis of the trend of cities no longer having two major newspapers by Holly Lang (scroll down the page to see the additional articles).

While losses like this are bound to happen, it is still a sad loss. In this day of MSM short falls and corporate mergers and acquisitions, there is still a great need for a variety of voices and for local coverage. But one of those voices have been lost... at least for now.

-the Progressive Conservative

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