The Baltimore Sun, a nearly 200-year old newspaper with a reputation for driving news coverage in the city, is now making its own headlines. The paper’s recent sale to a conservative billionaire is creating a stir within the world of journalism and leading to speculation concerning the future of the paper and news coverage in… Continue reading Baltimore Sun Purchased By Conservative Media Mogul, Stirring Concerns About Agenda
A body was found in Herring Run Park Saturday afternoon, according to Baltimore Police.The department received a call about a body in the park just after 2 this
The Baltimore Sun’s new owner isn’t quite the moral paragon he expects his businesses to be.David Smith, the longtime chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group who recently scooped up the Sun in an undisclosed nine-figure deal, has lived a salacious private life at odds with his conservative media empire.In August 1996, the Sun reported that Smith was caught by police in an undercover sting while receiving oral sex from a sex worker in a company-owned Mercedes. The Baltimore-based businessman was
You have no doubt seen the incredibly depressing news about the incredibly depressing purchase of The Baltimore Sun by the incredibly depressing David Smith, chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, the right-wing media empire best known for gobbling up local television news operations and forcing local anchors to spout toxic Big Brother gibberish like this.The Sun was once a great newspaper. I remember reading, once upon a time, that it had sprung more foreign correspondents into action across the
The Baltimore Sun’s new owner doesn’t seem to be on the same page as the paper’s staff.David D. Smith, the chairman of the monopolistic, conservative, local media empire Sinclair Broadcast Group, scooped up Baltimore’s hometown legacy paper last week for an unspecified, nine-figure dollar point—but his outsize ideas and a crude first impression might have just slapped a damper on the partnership from the get-go.During a contentious two-hour meet and greet with staff on Tuesday, Smith said he had