COLD TYPE: A Baltimore Media Blog

By JOAN JACOBSON

On May 3, I wrote the obit of the Baltimore Sun’s letters to the editor, as they disappeared April 30, replaced with insipid, anonymous tweets and comments  from the website’s blogs. Well, the letters have returned today, though equal space is allotted to the anonymous “talk back from the blogs.”

((BREAKING NEWS:  The remaining Sun employees are planning a byline strike tomorrow (Thursday) to protest the treatment of their laid-off colleagues.))Andy Green, the Sun’s new editorial page editor, a fine journalist who managed to duck the layoff bullet that hit 61 others last week, is responsible for the “Letters” resurrection. Though there are only three letters today, it is heartening to see them signed by real people from real places (Dave Cornwell from White Hall, Jerome P. Reichmister, M.D. from Baltimore and Robin J. Breitenecker from Cockeysville), all writing cogent, topical thoughts. A breath of fresh air.

 P.S. I am unable to link this page to the letters because they are not on the Sun’s website this morning – only in the printed paper. So much for the Sun spreading the word over ‘multi-platforms.’

Update: Since then the Sun put the letters back onto the website,as well as the printed Sun, so now the feature is fully resuscitated.