For all of Tom Fiedler’s bluster in yesterday’s e-mail to staffers about the Miami Herald web site being just as important as the newspaper, nobody seems to be keeping a close eye on the home page. Since early this morning, this headline has appeared on the home page of web…

Eggelletion The Sun-Sentinel often doesn’t do news — it’s more what might be called newslets. They are little bite-sized articles that state a bit of news, hint at the problem, then head for the hills with none of us the wiser. There’s a good example of one in this morning’s…

Political animal Doug Guetzloe measures his success on the Internet. In Google search hits, to be precise. “You Google me and I’m up to the 700 or 800 category,” says the Orlando conservative radio show host and Bill O’Reilly acolyte. “If I’m not up to 700, I’m not doing my…

Sometimes, the Pulp likes to do its civic and professional duties. FIU prof Neil Reisner asked that I share this with you. It actually looks interesting, like something upstanding and professional journalists ought to consider attending. I don’t know about the boot camp schtick though. They’ve been getting a bad…

The Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel both ran with the giant sloth story on their front pages this morning. The stories, by Tim O’Melia and Peter Franceschina, respectively, both did the job telling of the find of ancient bones in the muck of the Everglades in Hendry County. It was…

— The Sun-Sentinel’s Community News section was at it again Sunday with a headline that belongs in the Hall of Fame of D’Uh: “Dry Weather Increases Risk of Brush Fires.” This follows last week’s headline about keeping children safe around pools: “Water-Safety Experts Say There’s No Subsitute for Supervision.” Both…

In his column on Saturday, Buddy Nevins simply informed readers in the final paragraphs that it was his last. “It’s been a great run, but the time has come to meet new challenges.” Maucker The explanation didn’t come until the next day — from his Sun-Sentinel Editor Earl Maucker. In…

For your reading pleasure, I offer a memo written by the human resources director of Deerfield Beach regarding Mayor Al Capellini’s misguided attempts at romance (with a city lifeguard 22 years younger than he). A citizen muckraker e-mailed it to me (some of you reporters might be able to guess…

According to the Sentinel web site, he’s a senior special sections writer for the newspaper. Or so it seems. On the right rail of the site, there’s the header “SPECIAL SECTIONS.” It shouldn’t be confused with the nearby “NEWSPAPER ADS.” Anyway, one of the items listed is the Fort-Lauderdale Airport…

“Three years, 19 days, and counting.” That is the lede on the Sentinel’s lengthy editorial today titled simply “Iraq.” Then it goes into the cost: the 2300 Americans, the 16000 American wounded, the tens of thousands dead Iraqis, the $400 billion in this nation’s hard-earned money. Then the Sentinel tears…

Yes, God takes over WPLG-Channel 10 after the Jimmy Kimmel show goes off the air. Well, not God per se, but a facsimile by the name of Bill Keller, a convicted felon. Keller — a middle-aged fellow with burnt orange hair, a burnt orange face, burnt orange glasses, and sometimes…

Let’s begin with the cold facts: Coconut Creek Commissioner Jim Waldman is running for the state House in a district dominated by senior voters. He is also a longtime business partner of a convicted Medicare fraud artist named Bradley Hertz. Hertz was convicted of fraud in federal court in 2000…

Rose Honored By Commissioners Gunzburger and Wasserman-Rubin In response to a bit of snark, State House candidate Amy Rose provides the Pulp a rather involved response to my suggestion that we keep the eye on her. Why? She’s running for the District 95 seat against Jim Waldman at the same…

Nardozzi Two of the nastiest crimes of the year occurred during the past week and both have Riviera Beach connections. First, on Saturday, Miss Florida Basketball runner-up Christi Nardozzi was savagely beaten after a game against a Riviera Beach team in Port St. Lucie. Post reporter Jamey Eisenberg tells the…

Alright, my little plan to wrap up this monstrosity has been foiled by none other than Jim Greenhill himself. Check out the comment below the “Someone Has To Die Tonight, Again” post (it’s below Mutha Fuka’s little ADHD outburst). He says I made a little mistake. Specifically, he says he…

Some thoughts on the Sunshine State Awards: 1. Okay, there’s two categories, small newspapers with 50,000 circulation and under and large ones with anything more than that. Ridiculous. It leaves the small class with a dearth of solid competition and a whole class of mid-sized newspapers going up against bigees,…

I don’t pretend to really understand my friend Jim Greenhill’s relationship with the teenage killer Kevin Foster. I do know that he visited Foster dozens of times on Death Row. And I know that Jim shared with Foster his own homicidal fantasies involving his parents and wife. And I know…

Some highlights from the weekend’s papers: — In news that will do no good for Tony Soprano’s health, The Miami Herald reported Sunday that mobster and accused Gus Boulis killer Anthony Moscatiello is a snitch. Reporters Wanda J. DeMarzo and Jay Weaver, in the Story of the Day, also illustrate…

Thanks to our illustrious chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, here’s an advance copy of the list: ALL MEDIA James Batten Award for Public Service -Sally Kestin, Megan O’Matz, Jon Burstein; South Florida Sun-Sentinel; FEMA: A Legacy of Waste -Craig Pittman, Matthew Waite; St. Petersburg Times; Vanishing Wetlands -John…

The Post’s Andrew Marra, in our Story of the Day, tells us that domestic violence charges have been dropped against Yanni, which is welcome news at the Pulp. (Most people run his mug shot, but I prefer to remember him as he was). The Pulp hates abuse as much as…