Baltimore Sun Has 60-Plus Journalists on Freddie Gray Story

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[nickcarraway]

On a regular old Monday, the Web site of the Baltimore Sun might draw a million pageviews. This past Monday? Ten million, according to Baltimore Sun marketing director Renee Mutchnik.

That’s what happens when perhaps the biggest domestic issue of the past year — the relationship between police and marginalized communities — comes to town. Baltimore has convulsed following the funeral of Freddie Gray, who was arrested in West Baltimore on April 12 and died a week later of spinal injuries. And while national media have sent camera crews and correspondents and the like, the hometown daily has more than 60 people across the newsroom working the story, says Mutchnik.

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Because of the massive interest in Baltimore this week, the Sun disabled its pay meter. Traffic on Monday broke the previous record, as Poynter’s Ben Mullin pointed out.

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It has to be able to point to an archive foretelling the city’s ongoing trauma. Here, Alatzas notes the September 2014 story by Mark Puente on police brutality in Baltimore. Titled “Undue Force,” the six-month investigation documents that the city paid $5.7 million in lawsuits claiming that cops had battered alleged suspects.

Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson.

What sort of injuries did the alleged suspects suffer? Puente inventoried them: “[B]roken bones — jaws, noses, arms, legs, ankles — head trauma, organ failure, and even death …,” he wrote.

[DoughtyOne]

And zero on checking if Obama is doing things in accordance with the U. S. Constitution.

[Oztrich Boy]

Well at least these oldsters might know how to spell and use correct grammar

[kvanbrunt2]

see who the winners are: excellent article.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286700/posts

[Amagi]

I trust all 60 follow the same pre-programmed narrative.

[ExCTCitizen]

60 journalists? I guess they have the sports reporters and the classified editors covering the story, too...

[conservativejoy]

That’s amazing and yet none of them yet know that theconservativetreehouse.com has audio of the transmissions between the police officers, dispatch, and EMT’s that went out several times during Gray’s transport. Audio of the requests for medical assistance that the prosecutor said never happened for which she falsely charged them!