So I got an e-mail from a friend a few days ago. The friend links the Pulp on his site and seems one of his visitors had a big problem with a recent post about the situation in Lebanon. The friend, who is Jewish, sent along the e-mail he received,…

Bad customer reviews are disappearing from the Amazon page for the book Miami Psychic like cursed benjamins at a fortune-teller’s shop. Several that revealed author Regina Milbourne’s true identity, Gina Marie Marks, have been axed (if you haven’t followed the Miami Psychic thing, click here to catch up). But a…

Got back from Boulder CO yesterday. Slept something like 20 hours (actually it was 16 over a 24-hour period), yet it had nothing to do with a hangover. A first for me. No, good clean family fun was had, including a ridiculously beautiful mountain hike at 13,000 feet and some…

Pompano Beach Commissioner Susan Foster didn’t know she was meeting with a former cocaine kingpin. She thought Sam Frontera, who was creating a nightclub near Foster’s Cresthaven neighborhood, was just another businessman. She had no idea he’d once flooded several North American cities with illicit drugs. But the commissioner did…

Looks like some reporters and photographers will soon be hit up with an unexpected phone bill from the Tribune Company — and then fired if they don’t get in line. Below is a memo sent out by the newspaper’s controller, Darren Beevor, to all staffers with company-issued cell phones and/or…

Okay, so I told you I was going to be on Steve Kane Show this morning and you still managed to miss it. I forgive you. Instead of giving a play-by-play, the transcript is as follows. Do with it what you will. I have nothing to hide. On the show,…

Just when I get through, they drag me back in. It looks like I’m going to be on the Steve Kane Show tomorrow morning. It should be interesting. Big Steve has taken umbrage with this post of mine. And apparently there’s going to be some corporo-politico teacher of “people skills”…

— The Sun-Sentinel’s Gregory Lewis had some strong stories over the weekend, starting with a look at some of the real issues involved in the fight over the mosque in Pompano Beach. It’s not all religious bigotry, ala O’Neal Dozier, it also involves economic issues, namely Arabic ownership of convenience…

The most thankless tasks for any reporter, next to covering weekend festivals featuring various vegetables, is localizing. You take a national or international story and go out to find a local angle or, worse, just run to the mall and get people to talk about it. The worth of those…

The South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists covers all of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. It’s the largest local SPJ organization geographically speaking, covers a population of about 5.5 million people, and includes three daily newspapers — the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, and Palm Beach Post –…

How surprising. The Steve Kane Show — which featured controversial pastor and Jeb Bush dumpee O’Neal Dozier — devolved into a hate fest this morning. First Kane played an old tape featuring Rafiq Mahdi, a local imam who leans radical and who I wrote about (and criticized) in 2002. There,…

Irey Let me introduce you to Diana Irey, the flag-waving Republican challenger to Jack Murtha in a fairly bitter U.S. Congressional race in Pennsylvania. Check out this page on her campaign Web site. It’s all about the Sun-Sentinel’s botched story on Murtha last month that caused a huge stir in…

On the first page of her recently released HarperCollins book, Miami Psychic, self-proclaimed clairvoyant Regina Milbourne writes: “Because I believe I got the gift directly from God, I felt I had to do something with it. For more than fifteen years, I dedicated my life to helping anyone who needed…

Bogus Book You might have thought you’d heard the last of “Regina Milbourne” and her “non-fiction” book Miami Psychic. But you just aren’t that lucky. I wrote about the book in this earlier post, but to refresh your memory, here’s the way HarperCollins is promoting the book and its authors…

JT and Katina You’ve probably seen the little reports in the three Big Papers about NFL All-Pro defensive end Jason Taylor’s marriage split. And you haven’t really gotten a clue as to what prompted his wife, Katina Taylor, to file for divorce in Broward County court. Well it seems the…

Slow day so I thought I’d share a picture for you taken by NT photographer Colby Katz. It’s Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini at a recent city hall meeting. The gentleman in the blue shirt with outstetched hand at right is your peaceable Pulp host. I wonder why Cap doesn’t…

Josh Ritchie/Sun-Sentinel Rev. O’Neal Dozier’s ouster from the Judicial Nominating Commission proves one thing: In Bush World, you can sling all the slurs and prejudices at gays that you want, but when you start messing with Muslims, watch out. Dozier has been bashing gays for years. He openly preaches that…

Okay, about that “Pat” story in the Miami Herald: It’s pretty clear that reporter Roberto Santiago should have credited the original New Times story. In fact, it’s verging on a journalistic crime that the Herald didn’t cite Julia Reischel’s article. From Santiago’s story: “The soon-to-be kindergartner looks quite feminine, cartwheeling…

The Miami Herald’s Roberto Santiago does a decent job on the story of the five-year-old boy who is enrolling in Broward County schools as a girl. But if you really want to read about him, check out this story by NT’s Julia Reischel (if you haven’t already). She takes you…