Gretchen Day-Bryant must have the easiest job in journalism. She’s the Sun-Sentinel’s Lifestyles section editor and that means she must pick stories about pop culture, shopping, and video games off the wires and pop them onto her pages. Apparently she has also been given a directive to display the resulting…
Some interesting takes on cartoonist Jose Varela and his seige of the Miami Herald building you might not have seen: — From Category305 here. — From Stuck on the Palmetto here. — From Critical Miami here. — NEW-Dan Sweeney’s take at Doomed Generation. NEW-After the jump: A letter posted at…
Will Miami Stick It To Stoda? It’s a slow news day. So slow that all three big dailies’ web sites are headlined by a double fatality on Sunday on Donald Ross Road in Palm Beach County. That’s to be expected. But it wasn’t completely slow at the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel,…
The Aftermath (Not Mine, But Close Enough) Well, Turkey Weekend is winding down. For the Pulp, Thanksgiving isn’t a day, it’s a four-day binge of bird and football. Anyway, John DeGroot has sent along a Thanksgiving letter in which he celebrates the feast of life found here in South Florida…
Varela “You’re talking with the new editor of the newspaper,” said Cuban exile and freelance cartoonist Jose Varela as he holed up in the El Nuevo Herald newsroom with a machine gun, “and I am here to uncover the true conflicts of the newspaper. Here they ridicule the exiles, there…
This is just frightening: El Nuevo Herald cartoonist Jose Varela, who was brandishing what looked like a handgun, is apparently holed up on the sixth floor of the Miami Herald newsroom. David Ovalle writes in on the Miami Herald — which owns El Nuevo Herald — that Varela “appeared agitated…
Whit Van Cott is far away from the turmoil and scandal gripping the City of Hollywood. These days, the city’s former utilities director’s life is all about wahoo, Bimini twists, and mutton. In Key Largo, where Van Cott is relishing his early retirement, he spends most of his time at…
Here’s another e-mail from Tom Fiedler, which includes the editor’s note that will run in El Nuevo Herald tomorrow concerning the alleged “blood libel” committed against reporter Oscar Corral. From: Fiedler, Tom Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:59 PM To: MIA Newsroom Subject: ENH column today Importance: High All, The…
More shake-out from the Marti story, the recently published Hoyt Report , and Oscar Corral’s recent series on USAID’s Cuban missions. Miami Herald Editor Tom Fiedler informed his staff today that today’s El Nuevo Herald, which is published in the same building and owned by the same McClatchy company as…
In the state’s newspapers today, a dead baby is found in a landfill, a first-grader is found to possess cocaine, snow is found in Florida, the dad of the Williams’ tennis sisters is found to be slightly loopy (again), and the Republican Party in Tallahassee is found to be gracious…
Broward County: The only place someone can be elected mayor and it not even be mentioned that he’s suspected of having had a sexual relationship with a teenaged student — and later fathered her child — while he was teaching at a local high school. Josephus Eggelletion, the newest Broward…
Nikk Stephanie Slater did excellent workon the Florida Atlantic University drug overdose death of 18-year-old Nicole Phillips and 19-year-old Richard Cardinale. Slater definitely has the bug, man — you know, that thing that drives you to tell the whole damn story. It’s in maybe 20 percent of reporters in the…
Jake Hey I make fun of Dave Hyde too much not to point out his story on Sunday about Dolphin great Jake Scott. It was a good idea to track the guy down and a lucky stroke not only to find him at home, but that he was kind of…
I just got off the Jim DeFede Show on AM-940, re: the Hoyt Report. DeFede disagreed with my bashing of said report and had some good points that I had to agree with. For instance, the paper was definitely wrong to paint all the Marti moonlighters with the same broad…
It’s hard not to laugh. On the same weekend that the Miami Herald publishes a corporate-induced appeasement to readers and newsroom staffers still angry at the firing (and of company’s reporters who took payments from the TV and Radio Marti propaganda stations, a senior executive at Marti was indicted by…
The next chapter in the Miami Herald’s Marti saga has already been written, but we’ll have to wait until Sunday to read it. Herald Editor Tom fiedler announced to his staff via e-mail this morning that Clark Hoyt has done an “important report” on the “decisions leading up to publication…
Channel 5 Got This For Mark Foley, it’s somehow gotten worse. This guy is on one bad roll. Now, after leaving Congress amidst a scandal that’s going to land him in the history books as one of America’s most infamous and hypocritical perverts, his father has died and, on the…
About the advent of Vegas-style slots at Gulfstream Park yesterday: I’m not against them. I believe in liberty and that means if some cunning folks create a box with enough bells and whistles on it that people want to sit before it like mugwumps to throw their money inside then…
Lozman Fane Lozman was arrested at Riviera Beach City Hall last night for … speaking at a commission meeting. Lozman, the houseboat-living activist who has been fighting the city to stop their eminent domain effort for a massive redevelopment of the city’s waterfront area, was called up to the podium…
In the exit polls from last week’s midterm elections, more American voters pointed to one issue as a significant factor in their vote than any other. It was an issue that has hurt us around the world, on the national stage, and here at home. And it caused 75 percent…
The main story on the Sentinel’s front page yesterday was all about how great the selection of Mel Martinez to lead the Republican National Committee was going to be for Florida. Written by sister paper Orlando Sentinel reporter Jim Stratton, it was full of gushing quotes from Republicans talking about…
Here’s what I’m tired of: America patting itself on the back for dumping the Republican Congress. Democracy works, they say. People were smart enough to see through the lies. America isn’t really a dumb brute of a country. Ask Marilyn Ginsburg of Boynton Beach, who wrote a letter to the…
