In Saturday’s Sun-Sentinel, there were two 1B stories regarding a “commissioner.” Each was about Carlton Moore, who has been in the news a little bit too much lately. In one the articles, Brittany Wallman (I don’t have to do a disclaimer anymore, do I?) and Brian Haas detail how the…
Two stories, one in the Sun-Sentinel the other in the Palm Beach Post, combine to paint a damning portrait of the way America is raising our children these days. The first, in the Sentinel, is about record levels of childhood obesity in the country. Reporter Nick C. Sortal focuses on…
The ethics committee has spoken: It was craven political discretion that kept Congressional leadership from pursuing former Congressman Mark Foley’s indiscretions with pages. The committee’s report said “Republican lawmakers and aides left male pages vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley’s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than…
Cooke Communications, the company that owns the Key West Citizen and other publications, has escalated its battle with Key West Community College, taking the institution to task in court and in print. And the precedent it is hinging its case on involves former Broward Sheriff Nick Navarro, the publicity-seeking ex-lawman…
Non-fiction crime writer Arthur Jay Harris put forth a stunning theory in the Daily Business Review earlier this week that is simply too good not to post: That it was infamous serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer who killed seven-year-old Adam Walsh in Hollywood back in 1981. And one of…
The Associated Press is reporting that the Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the entire Hard Rock empire for $965 million. I don’t know why that seems cheap to me, but they’re getting “124 Hard Rock Cafes, four Hard Rock Hotels, two Hard Rock Casino Hotels, two Hard Rock Live!…
Searcy The Miami Herald’s web site is led right now by Kathleen McGrory’s story about a man who confessed to three “brutal” rapes. So what is a “brutal” rape? Well, Katherine Collins, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department’s spokeswoman, didn’t waste any time telling the Pulp: He’s an anal rapist, she…
The Palm Beach Post has a front-page story this morning on Nintendo’s new Wii video game system that may or may not have much worth. Reporter Pat Beall explores complaints on the Internet that the system’s hand-held device has been flying out of people’s hands while playing and breaking household…
In a letter to the editor, the president of Florida Keys Community College announced that the school is boycotting the Key West Citizen newspaper. President William A. Seeker writes in the letter, published in this morning’s Citizen, that the school is “canceling all advertising, printing contracts and most subscriptions with…
You have to dig deep into the Sun-Sentinel article on the Fort Lauderdale police shootings to get to the most interesting part: Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Carlton Moore — who has been highest-profile critic of the shooting — was pulled over by a BSO deputy Sunday, found to be driving on…
The Washington Post today reports on the institution of mobile reporters — mojos — at my old newspaper, the Fort Myers News-Press. And the really interesting thing about the experiment is that it mixes both good ideas and horrid ones to create what is basically a journalistic horror show. Read…
The Dolphins blew it yesterday, or I should say the Dolphins’ offense blew it. Had Miami beaten Jacksonville, they’d have been in the thick of the playoff race, believe it or not. And even though Jax QB David Garrard was sensational, the D held them pretty well. Naw, it was…
The most-viewed story at the Palm Beach Post is an AP story headlined “Britney’s Crotch Shots Take Web by Storm.” Well, I read it and was struck by reporter Erin Carlson’s parenthetical line about the photograph in question: “Be prepared to cringe if you dare to view the uncensored photos,…
Frank Veltri, the longtime Plantation mayor, died yesterday at 94. This was a man who first ran for office at 57 years-old and managed to become a political institution in South Florida. Hell, for decades, Veltri was Plantation. He was strong and tough as a bull. I saw him at…
A good reader sent me this link to some horrible creation called the Readership Insitute about how Sun-Sentinel Earl Maucker has become a leader in building something called “readership” (apparently it’s not tied to circulation, since that has steadily been going down). Horrifically, the Institute summarizes Maucker’s “presentation on how…
Omar Vega/Sun-Sentinel Last night’s town meeting with Fort Lauderdale police — meant to quell tensions in the predominantly black northwest section of the city after a questionable shooting — was by all accounts a near-disaster. Broward Times columnist Elgin Jones sent the Pulp a raw description of the meeting that…
R.C. White/Miami Herald The Stolen SUV The Miami Herald wupped the Sun-Sentinel again on the latest Fort Lauderdale police shooting story, again with the benefit of more reporters assigned to the breaking news. From the Sentinel story: “Police declined to identify the officer or officers who fired or explain what…
So this was what it was all about, then. The special referendum, the Constitutional amendment, the breathless newspaper coverage, the fight in Tallahassee — it was all about a bunch of steel and glass boxes with annoying sound effects and bad cartoon images whirling around in them. You can imagine…
Fort Lauderdale police shot two men, killing one of them, yesterday afternoon off Sistrunk Boulevard. The best coverage comes from the Miami Herald, which put five reporters — four of them bylined — on the story. They identified the dead guy and his passenger and got a lot more detail…
Bob Eighmie/For Miami Herald This photo comes from Dave Barry’s Annual Gift Guide, which was published Sunday in the Miami Herald. The picture comes from the motorized ice cream cone bit. Is that who I think it is? I’m not 100 percent sure, but if not, there is a veritable…
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I finally got around to arranging a bust-out for the book. So now I get to invite you all to a book reading. That’s right, it’s at Murder on the Beach in Delray this Friday evening, where I’ll be reading from Florida…
I’ll begin by announcing that this post isn’t to pick on the Boca Raton News. It’s a tiny newspaper on a shoe-string budget. I have nothing against it. But for the first time, I stumbled upon the on-line editorials in that newspaper and found them incredibly entertaining. You know, in…
