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,…
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…
[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…
ABC News’ Brian Ross, who broke the Foley story, tells the Wall Street Journal that his tipster was a “Capitol Hill source.” I’m telling you, these e-mails were being passed around like cupcakes and bribes in D.C. It seems more and more apparent, however, that the source didn’t trust the…
Fox News apparently has repeatedly misidentified Mark Foley as a Democrat during the past couple of days. The news originated on the hilariously titled “Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly, Int.” site. (SoTP’s take)…
This is something I would normally be on top of: The first op-ed column in the Sun-Sentinel from former editorial page editor Kingsley Guy. Oh boy. I think Guy’s column (for which I could not find an electronic link) is going to provide a lot of clues as to why…
The Victor South Florida is on fire right now. The Foley thing won’t stop burning and then there’s that revolution at the Miami Herald. I had to choose one — so I’m going with the Herald. Turns out that all the turmoil over the Marti payments at the Herald came…
You could see this coming from a mile away: The Irish Catholic Mark Foley was sexually abused by a priest when he was a teenager. What a no-brainer. Of course the Foley sex scandal was going to merge with the Catholic Church sex scandal. It’s a marriage made in hell…
Brian Ross at ABC News is having a field day with these Foley instant messages. They just keep surfacing. The man has hit a very rich vein in a gold mine. Now he and Maddy Sauer are reporting at The Blotter that Foley “interrupted a vote on the floor of…
George W. Bush just lent his support to House Speaker Denny Hastert, saying he’s a father and cares about children. Yeah, but too bad Hastert cared about the GOP power base a little more. This L.A. Times story was linked below by a commenter. It paints a picture of Foley…
The following is a shocking confession I just received via e-mail from a South Florida journalist. Not surprisingly, he asked that I withhold his name due to the sensitive nature of the correspondence: ——— Bob Norman, As a great admirer of your work, and in light of recent events, I…
State Rep. Joe Negron has been chosen — or condemned — to run for Congress in Foley’s place (with the disgraced rep’s name on the ballot). I think his photograph at left says it all. And there is this hilarious understatement from former state Republican Party chairman Tom Slade in…
So there were six more reporters at El Nuevo Herald who took money from Marti. Because a previous editor knew and approved of some of the payments and ethics policies “were ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years,” publisher Jesus Diaz decided they shouldn’t be fired. Then,…
