This just-sent press release tells us of an honor for Fort Lauderdale Commissioner and Broward County Commission candidate Carlton Moore: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2008 Contact: Gerri Washington Commissioner Moore Receives National Recognition for Leadership Fort Lauderdale, Florida- July 10, 2008 –.The prestigious National Forum of Black Public Administrators…
Well, they’re baaa-aaack. The Drudgians have come swarming back to the Pulp, this time on the Herald farewell post. I feel like apologizing for them. Just remember, they can’t help themselves. Many of them were obviously dropped on their heads as small children. In lieu of this, I’m offering some…
Well, they finally did it: The Sun-Sentinel managed to have only one story on the front page this Sunday. And, of course, it wasn’t an end-of-the-worlder; just something about unpermitted construction work. I don’t know how the Tribune company plans to get back on its feet this way. One byline…
Who is this guy Charlie Crist? During the past few weeks, he’s made headlines for all the wrong reasons. He flip-flopped on his anti-offshore drilling stance to prove he was vice presidential material. He’s buying out U.S. Sugar for a whopping $1.75 billion. This is a horrible business deal that…
Today is the last day for a lot of long-time folks at the Miami Herald who have taken the buyouts that were announced on June 16. I was cobbling together a list from sources, when one was kind of enough to forward this email sent out today by Miami Herald…
Part of him wanted to lay her down on the bed and hold her and make passionate love to her the way they do in romantic movies. Part of him wanted to get his clothes on and get out of there as fast as possible. And never look back. And…
At 7:15 on a morning in mid-June, Dara Torres strode out to the 25-meter pool at the Coral Springs Aquatic Center, turning heads among the teen and preteen swimmers around the Olympic-sized pool. She’s an imposing sight — the striated deltoids common to champion swimmers, a back with muscles stretched…
Tailpipe loves those elusive, cuddly sea cows that loll around in the shallows hereabouts, like Kirstie Alley in a bathtub. If only he could find them. Last time he looked — and looked and looked — there was nary a manatee to be found. Still, a lot of money has…
To Lose Sleep I have to commend Deirdra Funcheon for writing one of the most scary, surreal, saddening, and fascinating stories I’ve read in a long time (“To Hug a Porcupine,” June 26). I haven’t been this moved by a piece of local nonfiction since Amy Guthrie’s story on the…
There’s only thing driving up the price of oil at this moment and it’s not supply and demand (anymore). It’s speculation that George W. Bush is going to give Israel the go-ahead to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities — which will spike the price of oil well above the much ballyhooed…
UPDATED: [Since this was posted, the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel have done their reporting. Tonya Alanez’s article is here and you can read Todd Wright’s work on the matter here.] A little breaking news from the Pulp: Former Broward County Judge Jay Spechler, who resigned in April after he was…
It’s finally gotten to the point that the comments on this thing are often better than the posts themselves. The ones still coming in on the Palm Beach Post layoffs post are getting better and better (ever since the boorish Drudgians locusted themselves off to another foraging spot). And the…
To all those who haven’t gotten returned phone calls or emails from me this past week: I’m back and slowly getting back on the work horse. I basically missed an interesting time for the Pulp, what with the biggest media story in South Florida of the year breaking Wednesday. But…
Miami Herald political writer Gary Fineout was driving to his office at the Tallahassee bureau last Monday morning when he got word: An editor was in town to meet with the staff. It quickly dawned on Fineout what was happening: The job cuts everybody had been expecting and dreading were…
When some larcenous computer genius figured out the PIN for Tailpipe’s ATM card recently, first thing the cyberthief did was make four $100 purchases at a San Antonio gas station. The bank alertly shut the card down. The ‘Pipe’s not sure what the tipoff was, but, for smart security operatives,…
Camera flashes reflect off her skin-tight, red-and-black rubber corset. Shiny electrical tape covers her nipples. Wearing sleek fishnet stockings and gigantic, lethal high heels, she produces a two-and-a-half-foot black metal strap-on dildo. She buckles it across the latex on her flat stomach. Then the lean, busty 27-year-old turns to the…
Jorge needed some help, so for several thousand dollars, he hired two professional “transporters” — imposing men trained in a whole repertoire of negotiating skills and takedown maneuvers. One morning last November, they drove to a group home where Jorge’s eldest son was being held. Brian was just 15 years…
It’s been a long time coming, but Palm Beach Post publisher Doug Franklin handed down the bad news today (thanks to Pulp readers for posting it). Bottom line: — 300 jobs will be cut company-wide. — 130 newsroom jobs will be cut. — Buyouts are being offered to employees with…
From the “Where Are They Now” file: I told you back November that Channel 4 reporter Brian Andrews was leaving his job to embark on a freelancing adventure in Colombia. Well, he’s landed a gig as an Internet anchor for RCN’s first English broadcast. The first broadcast comes on June…
The deadline for employees who want to accept the voluntary buyouts at the Miami Herald comes today, according to sources. Then comes the “involuntary” buyouts. In either case, the deal amounts to little more than layoffs with small severance packages. And in terms of package size, the Herald’s is smaller…
What follows is Palm Beach Post Editor John Bartosek’s take on his newspaper’s management retreat, posted in a comment in the earlier post. The person who posted it (thanks, by the way) summarized it this way: “His language is much clearer but the upshot is no less disquieting: Readers of…
Management at the Sun-Sentinel is compiling a list of 50 to 60 newsroom staffers as potential buyout candidates, which it will submit to the Tribune Co. corporate office in Chicago on Friday, according to sources in the newsroom. Some of the more tenured reporters have been volunteering for the buyouts,…
