The Media Begged for Local Investment in Journalism. Then a Conservative Bought the Baltimore Sun.
23rd January 2024
For years, the mainstream media consensus was that the Baltimore Sun needed a local buyer to restore the storied newspaper to greatness. The fate of journalism—if not American democracy—was said to be at stake.
Then, earlier this month, a wealthy local media executive bought the Sun from its hedge-fund owner. He pledged to grow the paper by investing more in “community news and investigations,” the Sun reported.
And yet, journalists and news outlets overwhelmingly reacted to the news not with joy, but rather with dismay. MSNBC host Alex Wagner last week characterized the development as “extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
In the Narrative media, ‘our democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.
Really, there’s no pleasing some people.