Like a comet across the night sky, The Baltimore Examiner burned brightly for nearly three years. And then in a nanosecond it is gone to the annals of Baltimore’s rich media history.

It is ironic that Examiner headquarters is next door to a parking lot that was once the home of the News-American, another long-lamented piece of Baltimore’s media firmament. In its short time with us The Baltimore Examiner helped fill that “second opinion” void that only newspapers, as opinion leaders, can do.