The Powers That Be have pointed out the press are “enemies of the people.” That does little to discourage madmen.
WTF? 38 is middle aged now? I’m 55 so I guess that means I have one foot in the grave.
Way to harsh my mellow Rushgeekgirl.
Sorry his last name is Ramos, according to racial draft bylaws, it doesn’t count.
Can anyone find the column discussing Ramos?
Like pool, I had read that he is Latino.
Depends who you ask, but late thirties, sure. Has been considered middle-aged by at least some since at least the 80s. Of course, “middle aged” is a highly contested term meaning anything from 35-70 (way too wide, but I just saw a 1997 study that used 35-69) depending on who you ask. 45-65 does tend to be the dictionary definition now, but I don’t know how it was treated when term coined. If you consider it the middle of life, then 35-45 would make sense, given current life expectancy in US. Middle of adulthood - 45-55. If you tie to life-stage in terms of kids-out-the-house for most that age, it keeps getting later.
For me, I think probably 40-55. Maybe 45-55 (average age of menopause is in the middle of that). Anything in the 60s is too late to qualify as middle to me, but as I said, plenty of dictionaries disagree with me.
One of the victims, Gerald Fischman, was a co-worker of mine several decades ago at another small Maryland daily. Which is what the Capital Gazette has been for some time, though this may have changed with the recent wave of consolidations. Their circulation in my newspapering days ('78-85) was upwards of 30,000 iirc, which means that they covered a wide range of events, from the Annapolis HS Panthers to the Baltimore Orioles, from small town council meetings to the state legislature (located conveniently down the street). It was a different industry pre-internet.
He was a loner, but had filed a charge against the newspaper for reporting he had pled guilty to stalking an ex-girlfriend on-line. The case was dismissed, and he started an on-line harassment campaign against the newspaper.
In other words, this guy is a piece of shit who deserves to die.
4 of the victims were journalists or editors. 1 was in sales.
Is there anybody left to publish the paper?
I wouldn’t expect a small paper to have a large staff.
They published the paper today. A TV news crew this morning made it a point to show the actual physical newspaper.
This looks like it might be the original column “Jarod Wants to Be Your Friend” by Eric Thomas Hartley
Esquire –
“Every Newspaper Reporter Knows Jarrod Ramos”
Middle-aged is ten years older than me. Period.
So, it looks like there was no political motivation, just a loser with a gun. I’d bet the Trumpets are still calling it a good beginning. Can Krystalnacht be far behind, only libruls instead of Jews?
No rational person takes any joy in the senseless murders of five people.
This is a horrible tragedy.
A daily newspaper would probably have about one newsroom employee per 1,000 circulation (very rough guess going back to my experience three decades ago). Plus the Capital Gazette is in the Baltimore Sun’s regional umbrella, offering up a pool of additional emergency personnel about 25 minutes drive time away.
Never mind… It was said already.
I thought this was a small town paper.
I didn’t check the town’s population.
Thank God. I thought a fellow Southern Marylander was just ignoring me 
Annapolis isn’t a big place but it is the state capital and home of the Naval Academy. And the Gazette has been the paper of record there for a long time.