Guys, is this how it ends? Is this the sign of the death of music reviews?

With huge layoffs at the beloved music review site Pit Fork, and at the LA Times,

this year gets off to a bad start for journalism, from WNYC in New York. This year. This is on the media. I'm for Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Langer.

Meanwhile, the Baltimore Sun was sold again.

After the last sale, the hedge fund owners kept the paper's

staff mostly intact in order to go head to head with a local rival.

There's ego involved here, right? I mean I'm guessing. So you're saying this was a bleep measuring

contest. Yeah. The son's newest owner has Baltimore locals feeling less than optimistic

about their paper's future. There's a tradition. In the summertime,

and you go pick up a dozen crabs, and lay the newspaper on the table to crack the

crabs on, but I think the sun has meant more to the people of this market, of this city,

than just a place to lay your crabs on.

It's all coming up, after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Langer.

2024 has been very hard on the news business, and it's only January.

The Baltimore Sun has now been sold to David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting.

Also this week, the Los Angeles Times announced yet another round of layoffs.

The Times Guild Bargaining

Committee tweeting Thursday, quote, folks, this is the big one. The guild

called for a Friday walkout, the first such action since the paper

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