Ha ha. I wonder how long he’s been saving that zinger. Then Rick goes on to pontificate at length on something he thinks is really exciting – the NFL’s labor negotiations. Jeez, Rick, give us a break ! It’s the Super Bowl ! How jaded can a big time newspaper sports columnist be?

- Gerald Neily

As we prepare for the Super Bowl, we’re all Cleveland Browns now.
 
By Gerald Neily
 
The following sign was held up by one of the many obnoxious Pittsburgh Steelers fans during their victorious AFC championship game against our Ravens: “As far as we’re concerned, The Ravens are still the Browns and they still stink.” Read the rest of this entry »

    Buy a raffle ticket for a restaurant meal and help Manna House help  homeless people in Baltimore. Manna House, a shelter on 25th Street that serves 200 meals a day to homeless people, has been getting more clients and fewer donations — no surprise in this economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Forget about downsizing, these guys have tried that. The free tabloid just announced they’re going to just stop publishing here next month. Web version’s going away too. They couldn’t find a buyer.
Here’s the BBJ article.
Let us pause for a moment to bid farewell to The Examiner. For a little while, thanks to them, we were a two-newspaper town, treated to the occasional tawdry, but tell-it-like-it-is headline like this one. So, a bad day for the local news biz and for Baltimore. We’ve lost 90 jobs and lots of journalistic eyes and ears.

Sun to lose an inch, the latest local print publication to downsize
By Joan Jacobson
The ever-diminishing Baltimore media is now literally shrinking by size of paper – and some are disappearing altogether and going to web-only. The City Paper’s new design came out last week, looking more like a newsletter than the big, fat bulky tabloid we’re used to. In a month, readers of The Baltimore Sun will find their sadly anemic (not to mention bankrupt) daily paper shrinking by at least an inch in page size. Read the rest of this entry »