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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“Management is constantly telling us to work harder, take on new responsibilities, and give up our rights,” @baltsunguild.bsky.social told The Objective, “so to see our hard work suddenly replaced by incoherent slop one day is just extra demeaning.”

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Ariel Wittenberg @arielwittenberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Readers deserve journalism that lives up to our ethical standards regardless of how it is created. And journalists deserve to have a say in how new technology impacts our work.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Our 100%-AI-free analysis: If management decides to stop playing games, embraces its multi-generational union and signs a fair contract guaranteeing competitive wages + consistent raises, The Sun can attract talent and shine bright. Or they can keep doing this.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How thorough was that “review” of the AI slop, anyway? The second sentence of the disclaimer calls Donald Trump the “former President.” The same error is duplicated in the lede. It does not take a journalist to find out who the president is.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Sun management has once again disparaged our talented -human- reporters and their work, this time by filling more than half a page in today’s paper with AI slop.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We’ve filed two more unfair labor practice cases against @baltimoresun.bsky.social, which has been refusing to bargain with us for over 4 months — instead choosing to threaten our members with new union-busting policies. Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Baltimore Sun owner David Smith’s -separate- company, Sinclair, released new financials this month showing that they’re close to making over $1 million off of their ties to The Sun in just 2025. And yet, The Sun refuses to even negotiate wages with its union employees.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The latest move by @baltimoresun.bsky.social in its crusade to silence its union employees: a directive that bans any desk signage with messaging about collective bargaining, calling them “divisive.” We’ve shown solidarity this way for decades. This is textbook union busting.

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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

They’ve already shown what they will do if their employees don’t have union protections: fire them for raising the alarm about the Sun’s declining journalistic standards

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

David Smith and Armstrong Williams’ idea of a contract with union @baltimoresun.bsky.social staff: • Gut long-held protections against unfair discipline and layoffs. • Give management free rein. • Silence staff from speaking out.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Unfortunately, this attack on free expression feels all too familiar. From the unjust firing of a reporter who dared to speak up, to the union gag rule that The Sun wants to force into our contract, we’ve seen too many attempts by management to erode our core values. We won’t stop fighting.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We stand in solidarity with Karen Attiah and our siblings at the @postguild.bsky.social. Journalists should not fear reprisal — especially from their employer — for doing their jobs. Write the Post’s opinions editor Adam O’Neal and publisher Will Lewis: actionnetwork.org/letters/wash...

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Send a letter to Post CEO and Editorial Page Editor voicing your concern

On Friday, Washington Post CEO and Publisher Will Lewis posted a publisher’s note stating that the Washington Post Editorial Board would no longer be endorsing presidential candidates, including in th...

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Happy Saturday. Here’s another treasure that @baltimoresun.bsky.social tried to sneak into our contract: “Employees shall be free to engage in any activities outside their working hours” that are not “in conflict with [the company’s] views expressed in its publications.” 🤔

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We ran the numbers for @baltimoresun.bsky.social’s “best” offer: they want to rip nearly $800,000 worth of potential severance away from our members in the event of layoffs, averaging out at $27K per unit employee — and $42K for our longest-serving staff members. That’s disparagement.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Source: • SBGI SEC Form 10-Q (2nd quarter, 2025) www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... • SBGI SEC Form 10-K (2024 Annual Report) www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The Sun emphasized the need to claw away steps and severance from its union staff via its economic package, which offers journalists $$ for appearing on Sinclair stations. Meanwhile, Sinclair has disclosed making more than half a million in revenue off of The Sun since David Smith bought the paper.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The Sun’s “generous” wage offer: staffers give up nearly all guaranteed raises, but journalists get bonuses for hitting arbitrary click quotas — and face discipline if they don’t. We suggested that they reward, not punish, staff for upholding quality journalism. They ignored us and walked away.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#TBT Remember when Sun co-owner Armstrong Williams responded to our concerns with a column about how a “free marketplace of ideas is indispensable?” His and David Smith’s management tried to make us sign a gag rule, then walked away from contract negotiations because we wouldn’t muzzle ourselves.

A column in The Baltimore Sun by the newspaper’s co-owner, conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, responding to the Baltimore Sun Guild’s criticism of his rhetoric toward trans people. It is titled “Censorship atrophies critical thinking.”

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Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

.@baltimoresun.bsky.social journalists face a gag order imposed by owner David Smith. “They’re trying to scare the union into silence,” says a @baltsunguild.bsky.social leader, addressing the negotiating tactics used by the newspaper’s management. tinyurl.com/dbwhxwt8

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Baltimore Sun Guild journalists face a gag order imposed by owner David Smith | Baltimore Brew

“They’re trying to scare the union into silence,” says a Guild leader, addressing the negotiating tactics used by the newspaper’s management.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

David Smith’s first order of business after purchasing The Baltimore Sun was to disparage the newspaper’s dedicated staff at an all-hands meeting. Since then, his company has sought to silence any criticism from the union. We get it, David: You can dish it, but you certainly can’t take it.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

We recently invited Baltimore Sun owner/Sinclair chair David Smith to the bargaining table — he suggested that he could get a deal done in “five minutes.” That meeting never came. Instead, his lawyer declared impasse, and told us they’d implement a contract that silences union members.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Management has responded by disciplining Guild members who dared to speak up; and illegally hiring around the union to do David Smith and Armstrong Williams’ bidding. Their idea for a contract: More ways to retaliate against our members, and far fewer guarantees.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

We’re still around, and we’re still fighting. We’ve been busy trying to negotiate a deal that defends top-notch journalism, quality jobs and a strong union base at Baltimore’s newspaper of record.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Our union journalists work tirelessly to hold the powerful accountable, and that includes in our own workplace. The Baltimore Sun’s ownership wants us silent. Send a message to David Smith and Armstrong Williams: Charm City won’t stand for millionaire union busters.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Baltimore deserves quality journalism, not muzzled union journalists. Tell David Smith and Armstrong Williams: Truth matters. actionnetwork.org/letters/resp...

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Thanks for having us on today, @majorityreport.bsky.social! Catch our interview with @samseder.bsky.social about our year-plus of bargaining and the Orwellian “non-disparagement” clause that David Smith’s management is trying to force on us. www.youtube.com/live/ULPaiRQ...

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Trump's New ABC Threat Exposes 'Business Decision' BS w/ Hannah Gaskill, Dan Belson | MR Live

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

To borrow from what we say when we run a correction on something we got wrong in an article: The Sun regrets the error, but this ownership sure doesn't.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

But we’ll end with Mark Twain. His alleged quote: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are mis-informed.” The Center for Mark Twain Studies says this is one of the quotes most commonly misattributed to Twain.

A photo of helicopter seeds with the quote overlaid.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We could go on and on about the quotes, or rather misquotes, of everyone from Thomas Edison to Hannah Arendt.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Then there are some questionable quotes from Cicero. Maybe they were lost in translation, or from him speaking from the grave: his birth and death dates are given as 106 BC to 43 AD — meaning he lived nearly 150 years.

A photo of a lighthouse with the quote overlaid. Cicero's lifespan is noted as 106 BC-43 AD

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Neither turn up in an online search of Franklin’s papers at Yale and the National Archives’ collection of founding fathers quotes Likewise, several quotes by fellow founding father James Madison are mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

Two photos of the seaside with the same quote overlaid. One attributes it to James Madison, the other to Thomas Jefferson.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Take these Benjamin Franklin quotes: “It is the responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” And, “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”

A picture of two landscape photographs with the misattributed quotes overlaid on them

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

From consulting with a historian and our own research, we found some attributed to the wrong person, others paraphrased, still others with punctuation and spelling errors aplenty. And some were never even uttered by the person quoted.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When the Baltimore Sun opened its new office last year, ownership saw fit to decorate it with “motivational quotes”. Motivational to someone looking to undermine journalism and our union, that is.

A photo of a Thomas Sowell quote that has no clear source.

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

And the public has our back: 1,647 letters have been sent to David Smith, co-owner Armstrong Williams, and Publisher Trif Alatzas, demanding fair treatment. Baltimore Sun employees are fighting for their newsroom and need your support. Join us.(5/5) actionnetwork.org/letters/resp...

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Respect the Sun and its Staff!

Since The Baltimore Sun was taken over by David Smith and Armstrong Williams in 2024, staff and residents of the city have been taken aback by sliding journalistic standards in the paper. This is comp...

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Sun Guild has fought back hard. We: • Launched a public info campaign • Held 4 rallies • Withheld our 137 bylines during election week • Filed 2 unfair labor practice charges • Began bargaining to protect our union and win our first raise in over a decade. (4/5)

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

At the bargaining table, Smith’s Sun proposed gutting union protections, including those for discipline and layoffs. By December, they even hired a lawyer specializing in "union avoidance." (3/5)

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

15 Guild members have resigned, 3 were laid off, and 1 was unjustly fired — with few, if any, replacements. Many departing members cited frustration with the new ownership, including its decision to publish content from Sinclair that didn't meet the Sun's prior standards. (2/5)

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Baltimore Sun Guild @baltsunguild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

One year ago today, Baltimore Sun employees learned their paper had been purchased by Sinclair executive chairman David Smith. In just 12 months, Smith has made his agenda clear, with union-busting tactics and a disregard for journalistic integrity. Here's a look back. (1/5)

Inforgraphic: In The Sun's first year of Smith-Williams ownership... 6 months of bargaining for our first new contract since 2011. 19 Guild members resigned, laid off, or fired. 1,647 letters sent supporting the Sun Guild. Stand with the Guild in 2025. Send a letter to David Smith today!

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