Justine Barron
Baltimore Media Criticism at FAIR
Some updates and articles from your local Baltimore media critic Last August, I dramatically declared that I would be stepping away from...
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Justine Barron
- Aug 1, 2023
- 6 min
Publication of "They Killed Freddie Gray" book
And a goodbye to The Suiter Files (?) On August 15, 2023, my new book on the Freddie Gray case will appear in bookstores and online....
Justine Barron
- Sep 20, 2022
- 7 min
Free at last. But what took so long?
As Marilyn Mosby vacates Adnan Syed's conviction before leaving office, it's a good time to ask questions and to recall Thiru...
Justine Barron
- Jun 22, 2022
- 9 min
Thiru Vignarajah Threatens to Sue News Outlet, Blocks Publication of Story About Reported "Abuse"
The candidate for State's Attorney gets ahead of another damaging story by intimidating and threatening local media On January 20, 2020,...
Justine Barron
- Feb 15, 2022
- 7 min
Michael Harrison: Fundamentalist Police Commissioner
Harrison is trying to shut down strip clubs in Baltimore. He did this before in New Orleans. His history needs to be part of the...
Justine Barron
- Jan 27, 2022
- 13 min
The United States vs. Marilyn Mosby
“Is that all there is?” Peggy Lee sang in the 1969 song about the anti-climax of life’s big moments: Her house caught fire as a child;...
Justine Barron
- Apr 8, 2021
- 12 min
Three Years Later: Consequences and Casualties in the Sean Suiter Cover-Up (Part 3)
Two different Baltimore residents got tangled up in the city's desperate efforts to clean up the mess around Suiter's death, with...
Justine Barron
- Feb 3, 2021
- 9 min
Three Years Later: There's Something About Mary, the "Prostitute" in the Sean Suiter Case (Part 2)
A closer look at the story behind why Detectives Sean Suiter and David Bomenka were on Bennett Place and how BPD homicide sought to bury...
Justine Barron
- Nov 16, 2020
- 18 min
Three Years Later: Myths and Conflicts in the Death of Sean Suiter (Part 1 of 3)
Journalism vs. Evidence It’s been three years since Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Detective Sean Suiter was killed, on November 15,...
Justine Barron
- May 25, 2020
- 6 min
Thiru and the Baltimore Sun, An Encore
The Baltimore Sun reckons with the mayoral candidate's reputation, sort of (not really) Thiru Vignarajah, candidate for Baltimore mayor,...
Justine Barron
- Jan 28, 2020
- 10 min
Thiru on Message
The mayoral candidate attempts to rewrite the facts around what happened during a traffic stop and its significance, with help from the...
Justine Barron
- Jan 20, 2020
- 14 min
Thiru On Greenmount
Body camera footage shows a Baltimore mayoral candidate in a different light Note: I reached out to Thiru Vignarajah for comment on this...
Justine Barron
- Nov 11, 2019
- 9 min
The Battle over Sean Suiter: "Strained Relations" or Multi-Agency Cover Up?
A look at what is not being discussed in the recent stories about the detective's death Some families heat up around Thanksgiving, a...
Justine Barron
- Sep 1, 2019
- 4 min
Media Watch: Why are Reporters Missing the SAO Story?
A number of high-ranking departures at SAO point to a void in reporting on the powerful agency. In recent months, a large number of key...
Justine Barron
- Jul 21, 2019
- 8 min
#Mediawatch: Murder Obsessed
In a few days in mid-July, Baltimore Twitter was talking about how the murders went down during a heat wave, then went back up; how...
Justine Barron
- May 30, 2019
- 9 min
Media Watch: The Fictional BPD Memorial Day Riot
BREAKING NEWS: Saturday evening, May 25th, one or more hundred youth hung out at the Inner Harbor. Well, that's not really a story. It's...
Justine Barron
- Apr 26, 2019
- 7 min
The Baltimore Police Org Chart: A Journey
Michael Harrison, the new commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), has restructured and downsized the department. It seemed...
Justine Barron
- Apr 1, 2019
- 4 min
Some Dark-ish Money and Tangled Interests Behind the Baltimore Police Department
Who is the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and why do they keep popping up around the scenes of the Baltimore Police Department?...
Justine Barron
- Feb 4, 2019
- 7 min
The Empty Promise of the Baltimore Consent Decree: A Progressive Critique
Stories involving Baltimore policing are often presented, debated, and discussed among officials and media as if everything is normal and...
Justine Barron
- Dec 30, 2018
- 8 min
Media Watch: The 2018 Baltimore Crime #MediaFail Awards
I hope you have enjoyed your annual wrap-ups on another terrible year in Baltimore crime stories, in which the local media continues to...
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