CENSORSHIP: Baltimore Sun Bans The Baltimore Spectator

Baltimore Spectator Viewership up 500% after reporter banned from Baltimore Sun website

Multimedia journalist A.F. James MacArthur, an early adopter and proponent of New Media and managing editor of The Baltimore Spectator, viewed as a threat by establishment Baltimore main stream media.

Currently MacArthur, an investigative reporter covering crime, grime and politics, writes for several news websites under various pen names, produces and appears on air on two radio shows, and also directs and produces periodic video special reports.

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Biased: Prominent Journalists Work For Obama Camp

The Baltimore Spectator has learned over a half dozen media big wigs have left their jobs in journalism and now work for the government, it makes you wonder where their allegiance was in the first place. Their objectivity in past reporting should also be highly scrutinized.

Blogs at both the Weekly Standard and the National Review are pointing to a “revolving door” that spins between the media and the Obama administration. Read more here

What's Up Baltimore? **LIVE RADIO SHOW**

Thank you everyone who tuned into our first experimental broadcast of What's Up Baltimore?

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See the trailer to the documentary they don't want made:

Baltimore State of The City -- Reality Check Version a pre-production trailer from the upcoming Baltimore city documentary Do You Still B E L I E V E ?

Talk About It: Baltimore Examiner Shuts Down -- What's Up Baltimore Radio Show

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See the trailer to the documentary they don't want made:

Baltimore State of The City -- Reality Check Version a pre-production trailer from the upcoming Baltimore city documentary Do You Still B E L I E V E ?

FLASH: Baltimore Examiner Prints Final Edition

"It is essential that there be alternate and opposing voices, in order that integrity might be preserved." -- T.R Mencken -- founder The Baltimore Spectator

Talk About It: Baltimore Examiner Shuts Down -- What's Up Baltimore Radio Show

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Tuesday 17 February, 6:00 PM
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Will also discuss, Mayor Sheila Dixon, and all things Baltimore

Baltimore Examiner publishes final issue

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Examiner has published its last issue.

The free tabloid that launched less than three years ago as the city's second daily newspaper printed its last issue on Sunday.

Clarity Media Group, the paper's Denver-based parent company, blamed slower-than-expected ad sales when it announced the closure last month. Clarity said about 90 people would lose their jobs.

The front page of the last issue features a photograph of Baltimore's Inner Harbor with the Examiner building in the background with the headlines: "Goodbye Baltimore," and "Thanks for reading."

Publisher Mike Beatty thanked readers, saying they took pride in writing for them six days a week. He also thanked advertisers for their business and staff for their hard work.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

It's truly a sad day for the city of Baltimore. On a day so many of us wished would never come, here we stand, now, in a one newspaper town.

The Baltimore Spectator will have more on this and the resulting impact including community response in the coming days. Please share your thoughts with us by emailing; BaltimoreSpectator@gmail.com

Editorial Rant: Baltimore Mainstream Media Clinging To Inaccurate Reporting

From today's Baltimore Sun re: the water main break; "The rupture, which occurred about 4 a.m..."

Now hold it right there. The problem is, this is patently untrue. Every last one of the mainstream media outlets in town reported this as the time. Although I was there around 2:30AM and it was already happening, and I reported this hours before everyone else, rather than citing me as an eye witness, on scene source, they would rather continue to spout inaccurate information. (see my video report for proof their time is way off)

Am I the only one bothered by deliberate repetitions of incorrect information? My issue with this is, to me I've caught them. How many other times are numerous erroneous facts repeated over and over and we all buy into it not knowing any better? Were I not already on the scene when they were all sleeping, I would be buying into this error too.

My point is, if they're wrong and careless with accuracy on the small things, such as the time of an event, can they be trusted on the larger more weighty matters.

Want to know why they're doing this? Because on this issue, I was right, and they are wrong and it pains them to back me up or use me a source, a mere blogger. Never mind truth and accuracy, let's just be elitist towards others trying to bring "truth to the masses."

And to those who would argue this to be trivial, think about a court of law. Do you think if a witnesses time was way off and contrary to other evidence it would hold up very well? In the court of public opinion, I want to know how well do you regard our local Baltimore mainstream media in terms of accuracy.


-A.F. James MacArthur