Remember when the Sun-Sentinel went to psychics to provide us expert prognostication on how bad this hurricane season would be? Ken Kaye led the March 27 piece (of …) saying that clairvoyants and Vegas oddsmakers believed we would be nailed by a Category 2. Cute. As if there isn’t enough…
CBS4 News called the dead 20-year-old man a “snitch” and the Miami Herald intoned that he had “ratted out” a murderer. The question: Is that really the kind of language news organizations should use regarding police informants, especially those whose cooperation with authorities cost them their lives? Friends and family…
Issues, Indeed It’s unbelievable to me that our PBS affiliate, Channel 2, is keeping known propagandist and Republican hack Helen Ferre as host of the supposedly thoughtful and independent Issues political show. The first segment of the show tonight was on the Foley scandal and all the woman talked about…
Gallagher So I talked to Broward County School Board member Bev Gallagher about her relationship with mega-lobbyist Neil Sterling. Specifically about her job at a blood bank that does business with the school district. Sterling reps the blood bank. Sources told me she’d gotten the job through Sterling. And on…
http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=17543&category=Local%20News&PHPSESSID=87e1c30606e74392285079681d4e2e92 Barbara Bush a guest at Shaw fundraiser in Boca Published Thursday, October 5, 2006 Former First Lady Barbara Bush spoke at a private fundraising luncheon in Boca Raton Wednesday in support of the re-election of U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw. It was held at Boca Raton Country Club. The…
Don’t Trust That Smile Here’s Fort Lauderdale Congressman Clay Shaw’s quote in the Jennifer Mooney Piedra’s article in the Miami Herald today on the Mark Foley fallout: ”That was a sad day in Congress last Friday when we found out that the Mark Foley we know is not the Mark…
A few things: — The South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is having a panel on blogging — titled “The Incredible Blog” — on the evening of October 19 at the Sun-Sentinel’s Deerfield Beach office. I know this mainly because I’ll be on the panel along with…
You know what pisses me off about Palm Beach Post television “critic” Kevin D. Thompson? He’s more rough with his wife than he is with celebrities…
The Washington Post got ahold of some of the Mark Foley instant messages to Congressional pages out there that haven’t been dumped by ABC News (which is obviously planning a TV special to unveil the entire story told by the correspondence). The story is interesting. First it indicates that Foley…
Keith So busy with the Foley fallout I missed that politic0-playing engineer Bill Keith had died. Buddy Nevins waxes poetic about Keith in today’s newspaper. Keith was, indeed, a character, a man who came across with a regular-guy approach, had a slight twang in his voice, and punctuated every other…
Rogers The guerilla gay activist Mike Rogers, who was recently featured in a Miami Herald article that mislabeled him as a “journalist,” is promising to out a Republican senator before the election. This WorldNetDaily article tells the story. Before the vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January,…
When Farris Hassan is late for class and his whereabouts are in question, the joke is inevitable. “Went to Iraq,” someone will deadpan, and the room will erupt into giggles. When Hassan walks down the corridors of Pine Crest School, he is sometimes asked to show his passport. And there…
Andy Kozma is beaming. That’s because the 30-year-old University of Miami graduate who has spent his career selling vitamins and starting hair salons is standing in front of his most successful entrepreneurial venture to date: a row of six-foot-tall marijuana plants in a warehouse in Riviera Beach. “It’s really amazing,…
It started with a hunch and ended with a Broward County school board member crying on the phone, promising that she would quit her day job and concerned there would be a criminal investigation of her financial ties to high-powered lobbyists. “I don’t want improprieties,” a sobbing Beverly Gallagher, who…
Daddy’s Wedding So that’s why Bruce sued his own girl! Wow, “Daddy’s Girl” (Kelly Cramer, September 28) was a great article. My company’s been involved in litigation with an offshore company this guy controls for some time now, and I did a lot of background research on him. I actually…
South Florida gallops toward the fall election with barely a mention of the X-factor that could decide how Congress is going to shape up for the next two years: Diebold. The company that brought us electronic voting with no paper records to verify results has already been shown to be…
[UPDATE: Well, the cat is out of the bag now. The Oklahoman newspaper went after the story because the former page worked for Congressman Ernest Istook (R-OK) and had hired an attorney to represent him. The attorney basically confirmed that Jordan Edmund, now 21, was the page in the three-year-old…
Nisenbaum Layne Nisenbaum, the high-society dermatologist, is getting some attention. Since the 1980s, he has been Foley’s not-so-secret boyfriend. The Palm Beach Post’s Jose Lambiet managed to speak briefly with Nisenbaum for Wednesday’s newspaper. Nisenbaum told Lambiet: “Well, I (emphasis on I) didn’t do anything. Why are you calling me?”…
The most interesting moment on the Michelangelo Signorile show on Sirius radio today was when Signorile played a tape recording of Foley’s farewell speech to Congressional pages at a Capitol Hill ceremony (not sure of the year). I’m listening to Foley talking about how wonderful the, experience, had been and…
Now Foley’s long-time chief of staff tells the AP’s Devlin Barrett, who has been embarrassing the Washington bureaus of the big three local newspapers, that he didn’t protect Mark Foley — he turned him two years ago. To Dennis Hastert no less. From the story: “Kirk Fordham told The Associated…
The best name in journalism is going to have me on his Sirius satellite radio show to discuss Foley at 3:30 p.m. — in like four minutes. For those of you hooked up it’s on OutQ, a gay radio station (and a very good one), Channel 106. Signorile has a…
Here’s a transcript from Tom Fiedler’s interview on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer (via Romenesko) about the Miami Herald’s doing nothing after receiving some of the damning Mark Foley e-mail exchanges with a teen Congressional page months ago. Here’s a telling quote: “But, again, in the context in which we…
