Doing a little maintenance around here. On the Pulp’s right-hand side over there, you’ll see that I’ve finally added two new publications under the “Newspapers” heading. The first is Category305, an online newspaper started by former Miami New Timesers Rebecca Wakefield and Celeste Delgado. Go there early and often –…
Tampa Tribune You have to love a debate that transcends the packaged messages and shakes a little truth from the rafters and moderator Chris Matthews and Reform Party candidate Max Linn delivered that last night in the nationally televised gubernatorial match-up. And guess who paid the price? Charlie Crist, of…
From Sunday’s St. Pete Times: ———————— “NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT: He’s denied it publicly, repeatedly, and clearly, but Republican gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist has yet to shake the talk that he’s gay. There is no evidence that it’s hurting his campaign, but the Crist-is-gay chatter that went…
Linn Pretty average day in South Florida newspaperdom — the Sun-Sentinel chickened out again. Linda Kleindienst wrote a front-page story about how hard it is for third-party gubernatorial candidate Max Linn to get any media despite the fact that he’s a lifelong Republican and pumped more than a million dollars…
It’s so funny to read that state Rep. Mandy Dawson has endorsed Charlie Crist. “I am encouraging everyone I know to take a look at Charlie’s record and reward his brand of leadership in Florida,” Dawson wrote in a press release. Oh dear, Dawson must be back on the painkillers…
Thought He Couldn’t Go Lower? The Sun-Sentinel, as it so often does, is taking a dirty local public official to task, investigating the once-popular public servant with a clear-eyed efficiency that can only be described as masterful. Oh wait, the Sentinel never does that. So what gives? John Holland and…
The death penalty was made for Danny Rolling. I guess if push came to shove I’d vote to abolish state executions, because innocent people sometimes get caught up in it and most of the time it doesn’t seem right to me at all. But killing that frowning moping horrow show…
A young rising star in the Republican Party has boasted to witnesses of his sexual relationship with Charlie Crist, the frontrunner in the Florida governor’s race who has repeatedly denied that he is gay. The GOP staffer, 21-year-old Jason Wetherington, told friends at separate social functions in August that he…
Whether in tribute to or in defiance of Sting, Roxanne’s puts on the red light. Lots of them, actually: the recessed spotlights over the bar, the candles on the outdoor patio, and both lamps in the chill-out room. And could it be a party without the red siren light on…
A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a convicted felon and former travel aide to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris. Last week, I reported that 21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington had claimed…
Liberally Lying And y’ mama wears combat boots: Interesting — lots of innuendo from people who stand to gain from the claims that Charlie Crist is gay (“Charlie Crist Is Not Gay,” Julia Reischel, October 19). I have no idea and certainly am not going to believe it without truth…
First of all, Tailpipe would like to put to rest those rumors about the New Times curse. Sure, Daunte Culpepper was ignominiously benched by the Dolphins after gracing our cover. And whatever happened to Marlins Manager Jack McKeon (to say nothing of that cute Asian lady we featured in a…
Wanted to post a couple things. Actually, wanted to post a lot of things but only have time for a couple. First a story by Kirk Nielsen in the Daily Business Review about the reversal of the $18.3 million “false light” verdict in a defamation suit against the Pensacola News…
Channeling Atwater Charlie Crist is a darn nice guy. This past Monday after I had finished asking him several somewhat awkward questions about allegations that he was gay, I said, “Well, I’m sure you’re busy …”. A lot of candidates in the middle of a suddenly heated gubernatorial election a…
There were stories on the new PS2 video game Bully in the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel today. And their takes couldn’t have been more divergent. The Post story, by Laura Green, was about the PBC’s Superintendent Art Green’s take on the game: “The game rewards everything real schools advise…
We just published this story on the New Times homepage wherein Charlie Crist, I believe for the first time, denies that he has ever had sex with a man and, more specifically, denies he had sex with two particular men who are named in the article. I wrote the story…
Cerrella You can read about the Katherine Harris-Bill Nelson debate here and here, but it wasn’t much to see. Nelson was, as always, predictable and plodding, the political equivalent of the old crab scuttling on the bottom of the sea. Harris, as the Sun-Sentinel noted, didn’t embarrass herself, really, she…
I keep hearing that people thought my last column, called The Last Transcript and supposedly including new Mark Foley IM exchanges with a page, was real. It wasn’t. Here are some clues that it was a goof: The story begins: “In an unprecedented journalistic coup …” Who starts a story…
I’m stupid busy this morning, so former Sun-Sentinel writing coach and dedicated public servant John DeGroot is filling in for me. Here’s his latest screed on the Sentinel’s Help Team and HT columnist Daniel Vasquez, who penned an undeniably ludicrous column this weekend about missing children. He opens the thing…
Well, I wanted to post something about last night’s Society of Professional Journalist panel on blogging, but since I’ve been hit with an unexpected wave of intense reporting, I simply don’t have the time. Until I can give my nickel’s worth, here’s what journalist Rebecca Wakefield, who was on the…
Correction: This is NOT Father Tony The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is reporting on its website that the photograph (at right) that it circulated of Father Anthony Mercieca — the accused molester of disgraced Congressman Mark Foley nearly 40 years ago — is actually an innocent librarian at the Gozo Cathedral Public…
Bertakis The Miami Herald’s Kathleen McGrory recounts the near-slaying of 81-year-old James Bertakis by a flying stingray: The spotted eagle stingray leaped out of the water, slid across the bow of the boat and collided with him in mid-air, family members said. A friend of the family, also on the…
