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Media Fail Pt. 1 -- Initial Reaction

They Don't Really Care About Us

By A.F. James MacArthur
Agitator-In-Chief
@BaltoSpectator

Two people were shot Monday night in two separate incidents. Both happened within 15 minutes of each other.  One in East Baltimore, the other in West Baltimore.

The incident in East Baltimore involves a teenager shot in the head with injuries so severe, homicide detectives are investigating.

Coverage of these latest incident in Baltimore's continuing carnage was a disgrace on the nightly news.

From 15 seconds passing mention on one station, to no mention at all, it was made abundantly clear how unimportant these lives being lost in the city really are. They're not even worth talking about.

A message is being sent loud and clear to residents, especially youth, living in less than affluent neighborhoods. Whether you live or dies is inconsequential to us. You're of no value to society. Your stories isn't even worthy of being told.

In a special broadcast, I took to the air Monday night, doing my best to channel and control my rage to discuss the shameful, inexcusable marginalizing of the lives affected by the destruction taking place in Baltimore.

Here James MacArthur respond to Baltimore media's disappointing, lackluster coverage of violence in the city.

In part two of this series, we'll give a more detail breakdown of the precise amount of time given to the shootings by each of the local news outlets. These stories will continue to be tracked as we see how they develop within the news cycle.

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Researcher, independent investigative journalist, and entrepreneur, A.F. James MacArthur has been a member of the underground news network for over 20 years. During this time, he's been a frequent subject of attack by government officials under the guise of law enforcement. He's often boycotted from being given any credit for his work by mainstream media.
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LIMITED TIME: Baltimore Examiner Returns

On this, the first Sunday without the Baltimore Examiner. As a service to readers of The Baltimore Spectator, we present to you The Examiner. It's the only place left to view the Examiner online. Hurry take a peek, this is guaranteed not to be up for long. Be sure to click on the "archives" link and you'll be able to go way, way back. Really, gonna miss this newspaper.

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The Baltimore Spectator has learned that folks at The Anschutz Corporation, publishers of the now defunct Baltimore Examiner have visited this site. Apparently they were seeking to glean details on the upcoming project of Stephen Janis, senior investigative reporter of the Examiner. Janis told the Spectator he would be working with former Examiner reporter Luke Broadwater and editor Regina Holmes on a new website dedicated to focused, hard hitting investigative reporting on Baltimore City.

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UPDATE: Well placed sources have revealed to us that staffers at The Washington Post have been discussing the story of the Baltimore Examiner reporters returning. The source tells us the staffers viewed The Baltimore Spectator and the site was passed around among editorial management.

Record page views and new readers continue to flood The Baltimore Spectator as people from around the world visit to learn the future of The Baltimore Examiner. In the story first broken here, we revealed before any of the Baltimore mainstream media, that some of the staff of the Baltimore Examiner, namely Stephen Janis, Luke Broadwater and editor Regina Holmes are planning a resurrection.

To date, this site has been linked to, and visited by more people in a single day, than ever before, because of this story. We literally have seen folks from Europe, Asia, even South America view the piece. Truly, the power and reach of the web is fascinating. Even on a story we thought was "ultra local."

Thanks to readers like you for driving us forward. We hope you continue to visit and tell your friends about our unique little contribution to the way news is distributed. Thank you DCRTV.com for being the first to link and to all the rest of you also, too numerous to name.

I should also add, folks from all of the local media outlets have also been visiting The Baltimore Spectator.


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