Gunpowder Chronicle posted on July 12, 2008 10:56 AM | Rating:
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How bad of a newspaper is The Baltimore Sun? How poorly do they cover news? How lousy is their grasp of information in our state, the Mid-Atlantic, the nation, and the world?
They had to use an utterly dispicable and poorly written AP wire to announce the passing of Tony Snow.
That's right... Washington, DC is only a mere 47 miles or so from the Calvert Street Redoubt of Maryland's Most Largest Leftwing Rag, but they couldn't even be bothered to have a reporter on scene to collect the White House statement and Fox News' Washington Bureau announcement of a good, decent, and honorable member of their news profession.
The AP piece, written by left-wing flack and water carrier Douglass K. Daniel, is an ostensible editorial parading as a news article. This is nothing new for Sun Publisher Tim Ryan and his band of worthless typewriter jockeys. It is just another signpost on the track the Sun has been driving down for years as it careens wildly into the abyss of second-rate journalism.
Abandoning the adage our grandfathers taught us, to not speak "ill of the dead", Daniel's hack-job includes the following:
With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook -- if not always a command of the facts -- he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses. [emphasis mine]
Of course, nowhere in the piece does Daniel bother to substantiate the claim that Snow -- who was regarded by almost all in the Washington news scene -- was factually challenged. Not one instance. Just the editorializing of ratfucking writer for the Associate Press who thought he could be cute by turning an ostensible news piece into an editorial.
What is worse, of course, is that Tim Ryan and the editors at The Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter didn't even bother to read the piece to realize the despicable charge they were making of a dead man, without even having the common decency to back it up.
Long ago, I stopped subscribing to the The Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter. And when I worked there as a consultant in 2003 for four months, and realized how insecure and poorly written their subscription management software was (note: NEVER give the Baltimore Sun your credit card number. NEVER, EVER, EVER. Trust me.), I was glad I made the decision.
Today's little jeremiad article only reinforces my position that The Baltimore Sun is the absolute worst newspaper in this state, and one of the worst in this nation. Given the quality of the Salisbury Daily Times, and the hapless writing you find in the Patuxent Publishing papers (owned by, you guessed it, The Baltimore Sun), that is saying something.
When you walk in the lobby of The Baltimore Sun headquarters on Calvert Street, there is a giant quote from H.L. Mencken. Mencken would be shocked and embarrassed to see what his paper has become.
The sooner it dies, the better Maryland will be.