Ken Byerly, Sr.

I just ran across a good quote from the late newspaperman, Ken Byerly, Sr. of Montana and UNC/Chapel Hill. "A dog fight on Main Street is more important than a revolution in Bulgaria." This seems to me to speak very directly to the difficilty the newspaper business is having adapting to the demands and resources for information of the 21st Century. Byerly had made a success operating small newspapers in Montana before he returned to his wife's native North Carolina to teach at UNC. Two of his sons were successful in the operation of small newspapers in Virginia and Montana and such newspapers concentrated on the "dog fight on Main Street." The American public is clearly transitioning in the way they depend on getting their news and the newspaper may become to the internet what radio became to TV.