Well, this is a first. I’ve finally been compared to Joseph McCarthy. I can finally die happy. But I’m not going to get in the way of 790 The Ticket’s response to the post about Sid Rosenberg/Imus/Joe Rose below. I’ve had my say, now it’s time for you to hear…
South Florida journalism is taking a hit. Palm Beach Post crime reporter Stephanie Slater, who has also served as president of the Florida Press Club, is going to the other side. She’s taken a job as public information officer for the Boynton Beach Police Department. Her last day at the…
Joe Rose had Palm Beach Post reporter Chris Perkins on his AM-790 radio show this morning and opened the interview with the Imus situation, the Rutgers basketball team, and acknowledging that he, Rose, had to be careful what he said. “The posse’s right on your heels,” said Perkins in jest…
After nightfall, western Hollywood goes dark and an otherwise featureless horizon comes to be dominated, suddenly, by the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, the phosphorescent glow of its turrets visible for miles in every direction. It’s around nightfall too that traffic begins to snarl around the main entrance at…
A short, pale-skinned man with loose, cheekbone-length black hair stands before the congregation at St. Peter Catholic Church in Jupiter to read a passage from the Gospel of Luke. The sanctuary is sparsely decorated on this Palm Sunday, with white walls and a large wooden cross above the pulpit. Turquoise…
The gambling industry knows the value of getting them when they’re young. Not just the suckers sinking their salaries into the slots but also the politicians who make all the profits possible. You might think the millions of dollars the industry throws into Florida campaigns is all it takes to…
“Have a few beers and you never know where you’ll go with it.” That was the advice I received from a radio DJ when I called in to ask if there were a better Sunday-evening option to entertain my Canadian guest than reggae at the Banana Boat. So Brant and…
Brandon and Ginger Why he has a big head: Thanks so much for your thoughts about my “misbehaving child” Backwards in High Heels (“Ginger (and Fred),” Brandon K. Thorp, April 5). Not only did you take the show at face value and review what you saw but you did so…
What’s the South Florida angle to the Don Imus media maelstrom? Nothing, if you read the Miami Herald. But there’s a South Florida radio talk show host at the forefront of the controversy, one Sid Rosenberg. It was Rosenberg, a host for Miami-based 790-The Ticket (home of the Miami Dolphins),…
I knew it. When the Herald published the anonymous letter about Hollywood Maj. James Jones, aka Jimmy, on its web site, I made sure to print out a physical copy. Why? Because I had a hunch the newspaper wouldn’t be linking it for long and I didn’t feel like going…
This is a good example of the way that the Internet is changing the way newspapers do business. Today, the Miami Herald has posted an anonymous letter sent to Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti and City Manager Cameron Benson that makes all kinds of claims about Major James “Jimmy” Jones. The…
Don Imus calling the Rutgers girls basketball team members “nappy-headed hos” is a shitty thing to say. What an absolute idiot. But, with his career in a noose and the chair about to fall, he did apologize and MSNBC gave him a two-week suspension. Is that enough? Considering that he…
A Key West Citizen reporter has contacted me with one of the strangest stories I’ve heard in some time. Seems said reporter has a subscription to the Miami Herald. Here’s what the she told me: To my surprise, instead of receiving my Friday paper, I found in the clear plastic…
I was perusing the Showtime section in the Sentinel and a little in-house promo caught for “Flowers in Bloom” caught my eye. That’s the blog done by the newspaper’s movie critic, Phoebe Flowers. So I went ahead and checked it out. What follows is a recent post from Flowers, who…
It began with a February 5 memo from Earl Maucker that was posted on Romenesko. The Sun-Sentinel editor was looking for newsroom employees willing to take early retirements. Now it’s official, say sources: Eighteen Sentinel vets have taken the offer. The program has been kept very secretive, even inside the…
Darryl Stingley, a former New England receiver who was paralyzed on the football field by a vicious hit (in a preseason game, no less) from Jack Tatum, died today. Here’s a confession: I always felt sorry for Stingley, but I idolized his crippler. I’m not proud of that fact. But…
John, you ignorant slut. Okay, well maybe John Zarrella, the burly CNN correspondent based in Plantation, isn’t a slut (but aren’t all network people, really?). He’s definitely a thief. Check out this story, bylined by Zarrella and abetter Patrick Oppman, that is going to hit the air tonight on the…
Philip Busey, a soft-spoken University of Florida horticulture professor, reluctantly ran for public office this year. His bid to become a member of the Davie Town Council seemed to be going well until he was labeled an Internet pornographer. The 59-year-old Busey, for the record, is not an Internet pornographer…
Last time Tailpipe dropped in on a Sunrise City Commission meeting, the good ol’ boys were in charge. A three-member majority, with ample backing from the city’s trash haulers, doled out city contracts and jobs in sleepy commission meetings that were rarely attended by anybody but petitioners for city business…
“Don’t make me go to the Hard Rock,” my friend groaned when I asked him to come with me to Tequila Ranch. “It’s college night! Drunk co-eds undulating on a mechanical bull!” I said enticingly. I was hardly sincere about my enthusiasm, I must admit, but I needed a story…
Reality Bites One man’s satire, another man’s reality: Although Scott Foundas correctly gave the film Shooter (“Forget Gun Control,” March 29) a good review, he’s misguided in calling it a “surprisingly deft satire about Americans’ loss of faith in their government.” The film was no satire, Scott. Substitute Joe Wilson…
With a 9mm Baretta strapped to his chest, Iztok Plevnik opened the passenger door of the bulletproof, black sedan and climbed in. Daylight was drawing to a close in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, and gray clouds cast a dreary haze over the battle-scarred landscape. Confident his immediate surroundings posed…
