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A reader asks ‘Who’s stealing my Baltimore Sun?’

May 16, 2009 at 4:24 pm 4

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A warning, taped to a North Baltimore utility pole.....

A warning, taped to a North Baltimore utility pole.....

  • Jake

    Same thing happens to me in Bolton Hill, my paper was gone all but 2 days this week (Mon\today) and have since cancelled their free subscription and I was getting tired of waiting 2+ hours for my replacement copy to arrive (IF it arrived at all). Reading this makes me think that maybe my carrier really was competent afterall.

  • Melody Simmons

    Really, who cares anymore. The Sun is stealing itself, from the inside out.

  • Tim Wheeler

    The Sun isn’t what it used to be. I know – I still work there. A lot of good people have left or been jettisoned. It’s been painful to experience so much loss. But whatever you think of me, good journalists still work there. There’s no other place you can go to get as much news and information about what’s happening in the Baltimore area. So Melody, my friend, I hope you can put aside your feelings and continue to care that The Sun can survive and find a way to thrive once again – if only for the importance of having at least one daily newspaper in a city this size, and for the good people still there struggling to make a go of it.

  • usha nellore

    Tim, at first I too was disgusted with the emaciated and enervated Sun but I second you–I don’t want the Sun to die. It is remarkable how the people at the Sun continue to produce a paper every day in the face of so many challenges. The writers who work there put aside their own personal well being and economic insecurities to type away their reports and opinions. This takes guts, persistence and a love of journalism. I don’t agree with the Sun sometimes but heck who cares. That is the whole fun of having a newspaper around to cover local happenings–all the agreeable and disagreeable chatter it generates among bilious and civil readers–if the Sun disappears Huffington Post, Slate and other mindless blogs wouldn’t fill the vacuum. Local politicians will romp around their corruption. We wouldn’t know what the heck is going on without wasting time going to scores of different web sites and we wouldn’t know if what we are reading is even half true. I vote for a resurgence of newspapers in general and for the Sun’s ultimate survival.
    Usha Nellore

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