Okay, it looks like that Sacramento Bee story I mentioned in the post below has (or had) been shitcanned. I got an e-mail from Bee managing editor Joyce Terhaar saying the newspaper never had a story about the downfall of Miami Herald in the works. I knew differently, since I’d…
When you have a gang of disconnected, apparently inept stragglers who make international news because of a federal War on Terror bust, it’s the duty of the press to look upon it with a critical and discerning eye. To investigate it to its core and reveal all of its intricacies…
Okay, I’m backwards today. I should have filed this post this morning and this morning’s post now. But if I’m going to be backwards, well, I’m going to be fucking backwards. Fred Tasker’s story about Knight Ridder this weekend was … God, I still don’t know how to charactarize it…
p>I wasn’t going to post (about Knight Ridder and McClatchy and other fun things, like the 10-year erection), but I had to point to the St. Pete Times goof-up in running a satiric story on its website as if it were real news. The Times put up a story from…
Singer (in wig) and Satz goon it up (former Herald staffer and current Satz flack Ron Ishoy is on far left) Our esteemed state attorney, Michael Satz, is on the cover of the Sun-Sentinel’s Society section today. Apparently he’s a honcho in the American Cancer Society, an indication that he…
You might have read Dave Barry’s letter to S.Fla. fans today. It’s the first new piece the world’s favorite humorist has had in the Miami Herald in a long while. And apparently it got some tweaking from Herald editors. The edition that appears on this morning’s front page and on-line…
Not Arison — Or Is It? Dave Hyde’s column about Mickey Arison is on the Internet. The only problem: It’s accompanied by a photograph of Jeffrey Loria (thanks to NT colleague Candice Gulley for the heads-up). But hey, who cares? They both own sports teams and sort of look alike…
The Key West Citizen’s Traci Rork reports today on the bailout of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. The 26-year-old former Paris Hilton beau was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old Wisconsin tourist during a weekend of partying on the island in April. You can’t get the story on the Citizen’s web…
Just had to share this with the good folk of South Florida …..
— Good Jim reared his head in the Miami Herald today. Todd Wright quotes Mayor Jim Naugle: “I think the ugliest side of local politics are the developers and vendors give thousands of dollars to candidates. For that money they get access. If you got a major contributor, you are…
Listen, my children, to the story of Anna the Medic, who travels the land, bringing the harsh scrutiny of federal law enforcement to Americans engaged in political protest. In the past two years, Anna, whose real name may be Anna Davies or Anna Davidson, has turned up at rallies and…
On a Thursday at the Office in suburban West Palm Beach, I felt more like I was on a cattle ranch than at the tidy little neighborhood joint that pulls in all types for the weekly one-man show by blues man Ben Prestage. It’s not hard to figure out how…
Etch It in Stone Remembering American history: Bob Norman’s insight and precise reporting is worthy of the Washington Post (“Mayor Al Has to Go, Bad,” Bob Norman, June 15). When an elected official’s private business infringes on his sworn duty to protect the “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” of…
Returning from a short trip to the Dominican Republic, Rush Limbaugh was briefly detained at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday when the radio host admitted to a customs agent that the Viagra he was carrying was his, even though it was prescribed to another person. On his radio show…
Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel & Tower. This woman was actually Senada Adzem, vice president of marketing for Bayrock Group, the developer building the hotel. Melania Knauss-Trump was not…
The Miami Herald sports columnist Greg Cote apologized in his blog last night for using a Mark Cuban quote that probably wasn’t uttered. Or, in this case, screamed like a banshee. Read the Editor & Publisher piece about it (via Romenesko). Another cautionary tale and the moral is: Don’t believe…
You’ve probably read all about recent defections at the currently chaotic Village Voice, so here’s a fresh angle: A reporter actually moving to New York to work for the storied weekly. Sean Gardiner, formerly of Newsday and currently on the federal courts beat at the Sun-Sentinel’s downtown office in Fort…
Thompson Booking Shot TV writer Kevin Thompson was charged Sunday with simple domestic battery, according to today’s Metro briefs. To wit: “WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach Post television critic Kevin Thompson was arrested at his home Sunday afternoon and charged with simple domestic battery. Thompson, 43, was released on…
Deep inside a newspaper dominated by coverage of the Heat victory, the Sun-Sentinel’s Vanessa Blum and Sara Ganim provide us a look at the case against Jose Padilla, the so-called “Dirty Bomber” and former Sunrise resident Adham Amin Hassoun. It is, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said, “light on the…
Cuban This back-and-forth between Sentinel sports columnist Dave Hyde and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is pretty funny. You can’t really lose when a dunderheaded scribe goes up against a jerky billionaire. (An aside: What’s with the brackets where parentheses ought to be?) Hyde also had a column today that…
The Sun-Sentinel loves blimps. On Sunday, the newspaper ran a story on page 6B about a giant new zeppelin. Reporter Travis Reed, of the Associated Press, told us how an Orlando company called The Lightship Group created a “drive-in movie screen that floats 1,000 feet in the air — and…
The “psychic” author “Regina Milbourne” got a new customer review of her book, Miami Psychic, on Amazon. It’s from somebody using the moniker T. Edgington: “I wasted my time reading this book and now I’m thinking of the most sacrilegious thing I could (when it comes to books) … I’m…
