Sinclair exec buys The Baltimore Sun

I know this is buried in another Sinclair thread, but it deserves its own damn thread.

Also, local ownership is off to a roaring start.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/...th-sinclair-owner-F77S3D47ORD7LNEPZ7PJCXSLWM/

 

He sounds like a horrible guy - but if you were able to hold your nose and work for Alden - I don't know if it should be surprising that they were purchased by a bigger scumbag.

 

Wow. That guy sounds like a winner. Even if you're going to make changes, you don't go into a first meeting with your new acquisition/staff talking like that. Especially if, as he admits, you "don't know what they do" and he needs to "better understand the operation."

It was a dumb, unnecessary move, anyway, because, didn't he realize his vaunted "Project Baltimore" broadcast thing and the "City in Crisis" idea were probably at least somewhat akin to the community-service journalism that the paper side just wants to continue to do and for which the Baltimore Sun was awarded?

 

1) Start updating resumes, particularly those closer to the editorial page.
2) When he told the newsroom "go make me some money," he said the quiet part out loud. Like other idiots who run around buying up publications, his entire idea of value is what money they bring in. Therefore, ad people stay - no matter how poorly they do - while newsroom people get kicked out, no matter how much they're doing or how well they do it. Because, in the eyes of this POS, all newsroom employees are drains on their money. Never mind that without a newsroom, you have a shopper. No one buys a shopper.
3) As bad as this is, it still doesn't measure up to Paxton's ability to hand out cardboard boxes and tell people they have minutes to clean out their desks and leave the building before the ink was dry on the transaction. Still, this doesn't sound good for the Sun.
4) Start updating resumes.

 

"In a tense, three-hour meeting with staff Tuesday afternoon..."

I mean this right here is enough to show you what you're working with.

 

Where has Mrs. Pynchon gone? Not out newsing.

"WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME CASH OUT OF THIS PAPER!?!1!?"

To which she responds "How I wish Margaret Sanger got to my sister in time."

Did the new Sun owner mic the room up or hide cameras to see who was taking notes or possibly social media'ing during the 3-hour meeting?

 

Dude - that meeting was probably worth the purchase price to him. I'm sure he enjoyed every minute of it. Everything else is gravy.

 

The only way he paid “nine figures” for The Baltimore Sun is if one of those figures is a decimal point. Gannett’s entire market cap is $332 million.

 

The Baltimore Sun has a long respected history of good reporting Now we have to worry about it becoming a clone of The Sun in United Kingdom

 

This makes think about the infamous Monday morning massacre in Durham when Paxton took over.

 

I suspect the comp here isn’t The Sun.

The comp is The Epoch Times.

 

God, I love journalism!