Below is a letter sent out by Susan Kang Schroeder, the spokeswoman of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in California might be of interest. Seems the L.A. Times reporter slurred in the missive is doing an investigative piece on … the letter’s writer herself, Orange County D.A. spokeswoman Susan…
The American Journalism Review has an interesting and exhaustive story on the behind-the-scenes wrangling of reporters who tried to cover the Castro-to-Castro transfer of power. Authored by Lori Robertson, it starts with several newspaper f0lk — including Sun-Sentinel photographer Angel Valentin — trying to enter the country but getting turned…
Adam Hasner is one courageous politician. When the Republican state rep from Delray Beach heard Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez call George W. Bush names at the U.N., he just had to do something to support America, the president, and his brother. So he bravely penned a letter asking the state…
I don’t even want to give Spanish-speaking morning radio show hosts Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero more space on the Pulp, but dammit, I feel like somebody has to highlight what they’re trying to pass off as humor. Pictured after the jump is “Al Jackson,” a fictitious character on their…
The Miami Herald’s Nicole White introduces lazydork, a YouTube “star” who quit his job as a state prosecutor in Miami-Dade last week after his secret life was discovered. His real name is Richard Stern and his face is splashed all over today’s front page. It’s sort of embarrassing for the…
Santos y Ferrero Almost forgot this story by Tal Abbady, the protector of Jewish sensibilities everywhere. The Sun-Sentinel reporter, following his her dressing down of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as possibly the next Hitler, took a couple of Spanish-speaking Cuban radio show hosts to task this weekend. The hosts are…
Through it all, I continue to be awestruck by the absolute idiocy of the Sun-Sentinel’s Help Team. This weekend may have marked a new low for the marketing side-devised scheme that is being carried out by ten unfortunate reporters (I think it’s ten from memory anyway). This time, it’s the…
Damon Higgins Work, on this thing or otherwise, isn’t coming easy right now, as my home life is being disrupted by a man who has unfortunately lost his mind. I’m not going to go into the details, but my weekend involved a trespass notice, a restraining order, and two police…
The Boca Raton News followed Stephanie Slater’s article about Delray Beach police officer Vincent Balestrieri, who allegedly lied about going back to Iraq so he could collect some department dough. And there were a few, um, similarities between the story Boca News city editor Dale M. King wrote and Slater’s…
Worst Headline of the Day goes to the Miami Herald for its topper on a story about an enterprising Hollywood fellow named Darin Satter who set up a pirate radio station at his trailer that overlaid rap music on KISS County-FM: “Argh! Pirate radio station cut into country airtime.” I…
Levine: A man of the people (so far) It was on the front page, but I don’t think the Sun-Sentinel even knows how significant the news that’s coming from the North Broward Hospital District today really is. Buddy Nevins reports that new CEO Alan Levine, who I am starting to…
Lifestyles columnist Ralph de la Cruz asks us in a headline today, “‘Are we tightwads for wanting our ‘loose change’?” The answer, before we go any further, is a resounding “hells yes.” But here’s the key passage, which comes after he tells the story of his family getting overbilled one…
Writing rather shrilly that they are “profoundly disturbed” by reports of payments to reporters accepting money from Radio and TV Marti, the officers of the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists backed the Miami Herald’s firings of three El Nuevo Herald reporters. The crux: “Journalists in South Florida,…
It has all the elements of a morality play — adultery, love, betrayal, and, finally, breakdown — and right now, it looks like the final act may take place in the Broward County Courthouse. The protagonists in the tale are two well-known players in the City of Hollywood: Alan Koslow,…
Veteran local journalist (and former MNT writer) Kirk Nielsen has a rollicking good story about the McClatchy purchase of The Miami Herald in the latest edition of LRM Magazine and the Pulp just got a copy. Nothing earth-shattering, but it’s tied together by excellent reporting culled from good sources at…
Thought I’d point you toward this debate/rant session about the new Miami New Times’ blog on Critical Miami. Interestingly, both MNT Editor Chuck Strouse and The Bitch have chimed in, so there’s a bit of back and forth. After reading it I was left with a feeling of emptiness, really,…
Had to comment on this column in The Miami Herald by Sam Terilli, a professor at the University of Miami’s School of Communication and a former general counsel at the newspaper. He expounds on the Marti Ten and ultimately blames … the government: [A] fair degree of the responsibility for…
Well, Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti is at it again, proving that she’s a superior American and that those who oppose her are little more than small, rather disgusting, burrowing rodentia. It started with a complaining e-mail from Angela Jackson, an activist who was arrested a while back in Hollywood during…
Where would the Sun-Sentinel be without Mike Mayo? Today he finally gives the newspaper a whiff of credibility with his column about Ken Jenne’s hiring of John Hanlon. Before, he was nailing the Hard Rock for stiffing the guy who won the $260,000 jackpot when the regular staff seemed suspiciously…
Bill Ingram/PB Post Most of you have probably already seen the Paul Lomartire’s feature story in the Palm Beach Post about one of the more storied prostitutes in PBC. Good on Lomartire to get the story of Maggie Williams (or “Scaggie Maggie” as they call her on the streets) –…
This tells you there is something desperately wrong with America right now. It’s like the 60s on rohypnol. This is the Dead Age, the time of fears and troubles, of when the worst in human nature trumps any will to the good or care for justice. Well, either that or…
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