Comments on: Sun errs?

By: Another Sun Survivor

Another Sun Survivor — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:52:39 +0000

A victim of their mass layoff’s at the end of 2008, I can’t believe they are still shaving the staff down each month. My former department (that was already barebones) is down to 1. I’d hate the be that guy who’s left. It’s only a matter of time, right?

I loved The Sun and am sicked watching it crumble. I still get my home delivery but consider cancelling every single day. It never arrives even close to on time, never before I leave for work at my NEW job, and no amount of complaints seem to generate a result. By the time I get home it IS old news and I don’t want it then.

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:12:15 +0000

Hi Mike, I’m glad you’re finding some useful or helpful stuff on our site…. I am working hard to make Brew better and better and am glad so many good people are helping. Let me check into why you can’t get onto these pages. You should be able to subscribe to our RSS feed. I’ll get back to you when i figure it out…..

By: Mike Bowler

Mike Bowler — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:58:10 +0000

I’ve just been sick at heart for a week and appreciating your filling in the blanks. Baltimore Guy is way off base. The WP is a disaster also and will never establish a Balto. bureau. Anyway, how can I get your service daily, Fern? Tonight it’s shut off. “About Us” and “Subscribe” are nonresponsive. Hope this gets through.

By: WildBillFan

WildBillFan — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:34:50 +0000

I just can’t see the Sun surviving in print with what skeletal staff they have left. And the suits won’t care. Digital only, baby, that’s where our young, hip readers are. Except they aren’t, and they aren’t buying, and you aren’t making a damn bit of money off them. … Anyone who sees any value in producing b, or who signed off on the Sun’s past two horrendous redesigns, is so out of touch they can’t be reasoned with.

By: Baltimore Guy

Baltimore Guy — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:19:52 +0000

How feasible is it for the Washington Post to distribute a Maryland edition in Baltimore? I would subscribe today; I don’t even care if it took them a year to create a Baltimore bureau. I just want a daily paper every morning, and I can’t stomach buying The Sun any longer.

By: Battered Sun survivor

Battered Sun survivor — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:10:03 +0000

Ryan writes: “It is important for you to know that The Baltimore Sun will continue to have as many news reporters covering the region as before.”

I’d like to know what “before” means to our publisher. A week ago? A month? Sun readers, and those who work and worked at The Sun have better long-term memory, I guess. And of course the number of editors, photographers and artists who have been slashed is irrelevant to this Orwellian pronouncement.

By: Debbie Jones

Debbie Jones — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:57:06 +0000

From Tim Ryan’s memo: Every week, 9 out of 10 households receive at least one BSMG product.

When a newspaper becomes a product, it is no surprise that quality suffers.

By: Bob Erlandson

Bob Erlandson — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:27:11 +0000

As I recall The Sun of 1955 and look at what’s left of The Sun in 2009 one phrase leaps to mind: FUBAR.

My fear as The Sun goes down the drain is the same as when the papers in Seattle and Denver closed: Political corruption and police tyranny will increase unchecked because there is no one to watch them and expose it publicly.

TV is incapable of doing it; radio hasn’t the resources to do it and bloggers are not the answer. This was a function unique to newspapers.

The hired guns currently running The Sun are trying to spin this disaster as the first positive step to a new Sun.

BS!!!

Long ago they eliminated the historical memory of The Sun newsroom and now they simply won’t have the bodies to do the serious job of local journalism.

For Baltimore this is a tragedy greater than we yet know. But its impact will become increasingly clear as The Sun continues to set.

By: Larry Harris

Larry Harris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:12:51 +0000

The terrible irony of this whole monstrous breakdown is that 40 years ago — in hot metal and the first cold-type days — many of us were regarded as one-man staffs who made assignments, read wires, edited stories, did layouts, chose and cropped pictures, wrote cutlines and headlines, then went downstairs to the composing room and supervised the makeup. . . mostly in a 4-hour window at The Evening Sun. I wonder if Chicago needs a 72-year-old retiree who can still do it all!!!!!!