Some recommended reading in today’s papers (sort of like an extended version of the ol’ Story of the Day): — The Miami Herald’s David Ovalle breaks the story on a coverup of a star football player’s alleged sex crime by Northwest Miami Senior High. The school administrators look bad, but…
Let’s see what’s happening on Wa-Hi’s search for a coach for the Dolphins. Let’s see, Armando Salguero says in the Herald it’s pretty much down to a choice between Jim Mora and Chan Gailey. Harvey Fialkov says in the Sun-Sentinel that it’s pretty much down to Mora and Gailey. And…
Chicago Cubune Watch Thought I’d alert you to an analysis of the Tribune Co. response to the harsh Columbia Journalism Review editorial calling for the end of the Tribune Co. It’s from a blog in Chicago called “The Chicago Cubune Watch.” When I first saw the title, being from South…
I’ve been hearing from a few people who say the Sun-Sentinel has started actually cleansing their site of hate-scrawl. One Pulp reader just e-mailed: “I think there is some heavy censorship now going on with the Sentinel’s boards. I have been completely censored at least three separate times already–that is,…
The New York Times isn’t nearly as arrogant as it used to be. After Jayson Blair, Judith Miller, and the fact that two of its prized columnists (Thomas L. Friedman and Nicholas D. Kristof) got it totally wrong on the Iraq War, it really can’t be. Too many people now…
The Palm Beach Post’s “Literary Diva” asks in her blog why it’s OK for Newsweek magazine to summarize O.J. Simpson’s account of his killing of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but it’s not okay for Judith Regan/HarperCollins to print a book about it. “I’ve got one question,” asks diva Rhonda…
… …. School by Nirvana. That was right. Now you can see how wrong I can be: Baltimore vs. Philly in the Bowl. Ravens celebrate…
You think the guys at Sports Illustrated might have seen the Palm Beach Post’s front page on Tuesday? Well, you know what they say about imitation. After the jump: Lindsay Lohan’s Mad Miami Dash…
The Columbia Journalism Review, which has been on a bit of a roll, says The Tribune Co., owner of the Sun-Sentinel, should just get the hell out of the newspaper business. Why? Because it sucks and it’s getting worse, of course: “When the Tribune Company orders manpower cuts, publishers and…
There are many things to report today, though not many of them could be properly classified as “news.” More like “stills.” As in, the Sun-Sentinel is still scared to print the names of teenagers in their stories and mysterious white powder is still popping up in public places. That first…
The Columbia Journalism Review has a story this month morning about the “morning letdown” felt by countless newspaper readers. Guess which newspaper it chose as the exemplar of disappointment? That’s right, it’s our own Miami Herald. Here’s how Mitchell Stephens begins his piece: Call it the morning letdown. Your muffin…
The Miami Herald had a nice scoop today about the NFL offering local politicians Super Bowl tickets at their $600 or $700 face value. A lot of them — including Broward County Commissioners Sue Gunzburger, Stacy Ritter, John Rodstrom, and Diana Wasserman-Rubin — took advantage of the offer. Josephus Eggelletion,…
Chances are, if you’re under 35 but old enough to have voted for president a couple of times, you’re still carrying around the mental imprint from the day your adolescent brain was stamped hard by lyrics describing a robbery gone bad. Once upon a time not long ago When people…
Based on his solemn bearing, his unblinking, unsmiling demeanor, one might guess Bryan Caletka to be the director of a funeral home rather than what he really is: the biology teacher at Davie’s Western High School and the young, gun-slinging rookie on the Davie Town Council. He’s not bombastic, and…
The private investigator on the line was coy. “I got a tape for you,” he said, “but I don’t want my name anywhere near it.” “Who are you?” I asked. “Trouble,” he replied. “Pestilence. Apocalypse. Diarrhea. A Nagging Case of Bursitis. You name it.” “Why did you call me?” “H…
I lost my connection with surf culture when my band broke up more than a year ago. Intense and driven, I had relied on the contagious calm that the guys — all of them surfers — brought to my life and to our collaboration. They were the vibe; I was…
Bring Tissues She softens up the hardboiled: I wanted to let you know that your item on The Syringa Tree was on the money (“Hey Jessica Simpson — Take Notes!” Night & Day, January 4). As a Carbonell Award voter, I saw about 50 plays/musicals last year, so I am…
A special thanks goes out to Miami Herald sportswriter Armando Salguerro, who brought up the burning question that I’ve been asking about the search for the new Dolphins coach: What about Urban Meyer? Unfortunately the answer came under a subhed titled “Who’s Out.” “University of Florida coach Urban Meyer just…
For those of you not up on your Romenesko, here’s a link to the City Pages story by Britt Robson about the reaction of Star-Tribune reporters to the newspaper’s sale by McClatchy, which owns the Miami Herald. The reporters are raging against Gary Pruitt and Anders Gyllenhaal, who left the…
Look the Pulp isn’t infallible. Everybody who reads this thing knows a good deal of it is done on the fly. Like the intrigue of deadline writing, it sometimes produces gold and sometimes all that comes up is dust. The post directly below isn’t really either, but it could have…
The Sun-Sentinel just keeps pandering. If you get the print version of the newspaper, you’ve probably noticed the new emphasis on “community” news. For the uninitiated, community news is pretty much a scheme to build readership by going ultra-local and getting more readers’ names in the newspapers. While it may…
I should have caught this myself, being a former cops reporter and all, but I had to rely on my editor and a certain gun-loving and God-fearing mayor for the heads-up: The .22-caliber pistol that killed 13-year-old Oles Tromper almost surely wasn’t an automatic, as reported by the Sun-Sentinel. It…
