What in the wooder ice is going on here, hon?
Listen—you know I love seeing our city make moves, especially when it's about helping folks. But I gotta click my tongue a little at this one. The Baltimore Banner's parent company, Venetoulis Institute, is buying the *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette*? Y'all serious? Now, I know we're big on community, and saving a newspaper from closing is a noble cause. I get it. But Baltimore's always been about keeping it tight, keeping it local, and our news outlets need to be focused like a laser beam on *us*.
### My Take on This Big News
I'ma say this once: it's a huge look for the Banner to be in a position to save another city's paper. It shows that Baltimore has the kind of journalistic muscle and financial backing to make an impact far beyond the Inner Harbor.
* The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which runs The Baltimore Banner, is making this move. * This purchase is specifically aimed at preventing the *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette* from shutting down. * It means a Baltimore-based organization is stepping up to preserve local journalism in *another* major East Coast city.
Now, while I'm proud of the look this gives Baltimore, my first thought is always, "What about *us*?" We got plenty of stories right here, from the fight to keep Lexington Market authentic to the daily struggles with potholes on North Avenue. Are we gonna see resources split? Are they gonna get distracted by Pittsburgh's problems when we still got so much going on in places like Pigtown and Patterson Park? That's Baltimore, hon — we don't break, we just bend loud. We need our media to be just as loud for *us*.
This is a big step, no doubt. But for me, the real win is when every single person in Baltimore feels like their story is being told, loud and clear, right here at home.
Keisha Rawlings-Dorsey, MiTL Sports Desk, signing off.
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