On Sunday, Alden Global Capital, a private equity firm with a reputation for sucking the remaining blood out of failing newspapers before offloading what's left of them, sold the Baltimore Sun to Sinclair Broadcast Group Executive Chairman David Smith, who has a reputation for using his local news assets to propagate his far-right ideology.
It wasn't a surprise when one of the paper's most notable alums, writer-producer David Simon, let loose on Twitter/X almost immediately after the news broke.
