p>I wasn’t going to post (about Knight Ridder and McClatchy and other fun things, like the 10-year erection), but I had to point to the St. Pete Times goof-up in running a satiric story on its website as if it were real news. The Times put up a story from…

Singer (in wig) and Satz goon it up (former Herald staffer and current Satz flack Ron Ishoy is on far left) Our esteemed state attorney, Michael Satz, is on the cover of the Sun-Sentinel’s Society section today. Apparently he’s a honcho in the American Cancer Society, an indication that he…

You might have read Dave Barry’s letter to S.Fla. fans today. It’s the first new piece the world’s favorite humorist has had in the Miami Herald in a long while. And apparently it got some tweaking from Herald editors. The edition that appears on this morning’s front page and on-line…

Not Arison — Or Is It? Dave Hyde’s column about Mickey Arison is on the Internet. The only problem: It’s accompanied by a photograph of Jeffrey Loria (thanks to NT colleague Candice Gulley for the heads-up). But hey, who cares? They both own sports teams and sort of look alike…

The Key West Citizen’s Traci Rork reports today on the bailout of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. The 26-year-old former Paris Hilton beau was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old Wisconsin tourist during a weekend of partying on the island in April. You can’t get the story on the Citizen’s web…

Just had to share this with the good folk of South Florida …..

The Miami Herald sports columnist Greg Cote apologized in his blog last night for using a Mark Cuban quote that probably wasn’t uttered. Or, in this case, screamed like a banshee. Read the Editor & Publisher piece about it (via Romenesko). Another cautionary tale and the moral is: Don’t believe…

You’ve probably read all about recent defections at the currently chaotic Village Voice, so here’s a fresh angle: A reporter actually moving to New York to work for the storied weekly. Sean Gardiner, formerly of Newsday and currently on the federal courts beat at the Sun-Sentinel’s downtown office in Fort…

Thompson Booking Shot TV writer Kevin Thompson was charged Sunday with simple domestic battery, according to today’s Metro briefs. To wit: “WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach Post television critic Kevin Thompson was arrested at his home Sunday afternoon and charged with simple domestic battery. Thompson, 43, was released on…

Deep inside a newspaper dominated by coverage of the Heat victory, the Sun-Sentinel’s Vanessa Blum and Sara Ganim provide us a look at the case against Jose Padilla, the so-called “Dirty Bomber” and former Sunrise resident Adham Amin Hassoun. It is, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said, “light on the…

Cuban This back-and-forth between Sentinel sports columnist Dave Hyde and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is pretty funny. You can’t really lose when a dunderheaded scribe goes up against a jerky billionaire. (An aside: What’s with the brackets where parentheses ought to be?) Hyde also had a column today that…

The Sun-Sentinel loves blimps. On Sunday, the newspaper ran a story on page 6B about a giant new zeppelin. Reporter Travis Reed, of the Associated Press, told us how an Orlando company called The Lightship Group created a “drive-in movie screen that floats 1,000 feet in the air — and…

The “psychic” author “Regina Milbourne” got a new customer review of her book, Miami Psychic, on Amazon. It’s from somebody using the moniker T. Edgington: “I wasted my time reading this book and now I’m thinking of the most sacrilegious thing I could (when it comes to books) … I’m…

People are finding interesting ways to abuse the Miami Herald’s Wild West comment system . First, you have this comment on Evan S. Benn’s sex offender sweep story in the Miami Herald Saturday: My name is German Daniel Alvarez. I am a convicted stalker on probation for another 10 years…

The dashboard thing on the New Times’ archaic blogging system shows me sites that link to the Pulp and one yesterday was the Florida, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Democratic Caucus. They ran the You Have the Right To Remain Absolutely Fabulous post in its entirety — only with one…

HarperCollins at least pretends to believe that the contents of its recently released nonfiction yarn, Miami Psychic, is true. The publishing house’s biography of new author Regina Milbourne reads: “Regina Milbourne first realized her psychic gift two weeks after almost drowning in an unattended swimming pool when she was twelve…

The Sun-Sentinel’s front page was dominated by a Jeb Bush presidential campaign ad. Or was it a news story? It had to do with FCAT scores. The huge headline over the picture of jubilant teachers: “Lots of A’s, No F’s.” The deck: “Grades for Broward County schools rise sharply; governor…

Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini’s bladder must have struck again. Or, as Capellini put it in a recent news release, his “urological habits” may have led him away from the City Commission meeting over which he was presiding. It was September 7, 2004. Capellini sat on the dais at Deerfield…

Former Miami Herald reporter Peter Wallsten gets presidential apology. Dubya called out Wallsten at a Rose Garden press conference yesterday for wearing his “shades” while asking a question. “Are you going to ask that question with shades on?” he asked with derision dripping off of him. He then looked into…

The Daily Business Review, home of second chances. John Pacenti, who was so unceremoniously and outrageously fired by the weak-kneed corpo-hacks at the Palm Beach Post, is back, if only on a freelance basis. Today his byline appears in the DBR, where Jim DeFede also did a freelance piece before…

When I read Anthony Man’s story about Palm Beach County Administrator Bob Weisman’s war against flouride, I had to interview the man. I mean, I thought flouride was the only thing that kept us from having British-style teeth. This morning, Weisman finally gave me some time to discuss it. The…