Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Newspaperin'

Ace sports writer Marty Kirkland, who introduced me to that fine TV show The Wire, further depressed me by forwarding this piece by David Simon. I suspect he's not a real popular fellow at the Baltimore Sun editorial meetings.
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Charles said...

Jesse Walker wrote this piece about The Wire and the Baltimore Sun last year:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/126028.html

My favorite part:

When the Baltimore County staff moved to the paper’s downtown headquarters, a company spokesperson told the local alternative weekly that the reporters are “not in their office most of the time anyway. They can go out to Glen Burnie or Reisterstown from here just as quick as they could from Towson.”

For those of you who don’t live in the area: It is extremely unlikely that a Baltimore County reporter will have to cover anything in Glen Burnie, since Glen Burnie is not in Baltimore County. To get from the old bureau office to Glen Burnie, you must first move around or across an obscure little burg called the city of Baltimore. The fact that it is possible to be a spokeswoman for The Sun without knowing this speaks volumes.

March 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM

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