Thursday, February 16, 2006

February 16

zahidIf you voted Ehrlich you need to send this girl a get-well card and an apology. (right, Michael Williamson).

A man shot in PG County was identified as 20-year-old Tayvonne Bell of Laurel.

Jason Wells, 23, moved to Cape Cod to escape Baltimore's violence, then met his end in Sandwich at the hands of Daniel Prunty in a crazy drama.

cagalRemember Emily Cagal? Her ex-boyfriend was sentenced to life for her murder.

Karja Hansen, 21, was shocked to find out that a guy she dated was not just 'a little bit of a jerk' but the (allegedly) homicidal jerk Christopher Gaumer.

A Jessup man was arrested for the second time in three days for trying to choke the same woman.

Kelley Briggs, the Harford County mom whose child overdosed on methadone, will serve five years.

Bobby Wayne Rhoades was arrested for tampering with baby formula.

The pills-for sex doctor is now also facing a $5 million lawsuit.

Sheila Warham: Hey sluts, you had the chance to be responsible before you took off the pants.

Unshockingly, Duncan is in favor of the crime audit.

A black market for golf gear in Towson?

Thank heaven for little girls, and that Schaefer's ogling was caught on tape! And you can stop the video on individual frames! You can her WillDon say "oh my... "! See the woman to Ehrlich's left bite her nails and look away quickly, and the woman in beige start laughing like, "There goes crazy grandpa again!" Coffeegirl, 24, has her hair down and has on this white sweater that's so tight her boobs are like a front fender, and she sticks her rack right in the old man's face. Ehrlich hugs himself and rocks like a mental patient. A stunning mediation on the frailty of the human connection and the ravages of age. Hello, Murrow.

Power Law.

4 comments:

InsiderOut said...

I don't understand why the Sun doesn't report how the medical examiner found there where more homicides last year than the police department. Especially after they repeatedly trumpeted the "decline" in homicides last year from the year before. Is there any non-biased reason for it? The BPD said there were 269 and the medical examiner says 275 (an actual increase from 2004). Why is that not as big as news as the original total of 269?

Anonymous said...

Answer: because the Sun is a political instrument, not a newspaper.

It's part of why the free City Paper has such high readership.

Maurice Bradbury said...

I don't think that the Sun likes to report on murder in general. I think it's too icky, difficult and unsatisying a subject, and they fear that if they publish grim, tragic stories 275 times a year the whole paper will have a 'bummer' aura and the advertisers won' t like it. It's always been that way, so I don't think it's because they have a bias against any particular politician.

The CP does a good job when they do the in-depth crime pieces, but that's not more than a few times a year. I think most readers pick it up for Savage Love.

Anonymous said...

Part of the problem with the media in B'more is that they have to market to too broad an area. The same paper that deals with the city people and their lives is primarily getting advertising from suburban business whose customers don't live here and aren't exposed to the same things we are.

Most of the people shopping at White Marsh have never had a murder within a few blocks of their home. Accordingly, they don't want to hear about it.