This morning Sun-Sentinel employees got this e-mail from some amorphous corporate entity known as “Transformative Change”: From: Transformative Change Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 8:47 AM To: zzSSC.1Exchange.Users Subject: Slogan/Logo Ideas Requested To Help Communicate Company’s ‘Change’ Process As part of the transformative change process presently underway at Sun-Sentinel Company, employees are…

If you live in Broward County, you have reason to rejoice. Your little spot in the world is a place of distinction. It´s the best at something, a superlative locale. Broward County is the most corrupt place in America. You might wonder how I know this, so I´ll prove it…

Not that I like to glorify bank robbers (when in American history has that ever been done? oh …) but the photo is just wild. It comes from the Miami Herald, via the Miramar Police Department, via a surveillance camera at SunTrust Bank. The Herald’s Kathleen McGrory wrote this story…

You have hundreds of families who are going to be displaced over the new runway that was approved by a 6-3 vote yesterday. It’s a decision that basically paves the way, literally, for Fort Lauderdale to become a metropolis. It’s probably the biggest issue there is and there has been…

Michael Mayo’s offering this morning was righteous. Somebody needed to say that it’s a horrible idea to have rich lanes and poor lanes on our highways. Whoever came up with this idea should be publicly flogged. It’s Un-fucking-American. Didn’t we dump the royalty thing 230 years ago? Recently when my…

The Eagle Has FallenWhen my daughter handed me the Sun-Sentinel this morning, I saw the 72-point headline and thought I must have missed a something huge. You know, a terrorist attack, a sports championship, a Help Team exclusive, something Big. Then I read the giant headline: TWO LIVES COLLIDE Oh,…

The Eagle Has FallenYes, TIM is dead. Or at least “temporarily deactivated.” The Boynton Beach Police Department’s experiment in calling truth to media has been called off, according to a new posting on the department’s website, after complaints came from newspapers that the department was engaging in a “bunker mentality”…

Best Misspelling Ever — Or Is It? (From the Jerusalem Post)…

Tim Loves America Last month, Stephanie Slater was writing about crime and law enforcement for the Palm Beach Post. Now she’s declared war on her former colleagues and competitors — or at least those whom she deems to have gotten their facts wrong about her new employer. As reported here,…

Here’s John DeGroot’s latest, which is one of his best in terms of turns of phrase (though the time factor might take some of the steam out of its stride): That no one out there in Pulpland has rallied to my call to Save the Sun-Sentinel (SOSS) grieves me to…

I think not. There’s a debate about it at Romenesko which I find ludicrous. The argument started with this article, which apparently was based on a gripe by Sam Zell, the new Tribune Co. owner. If this is an omen of how Zell thinks, then the Sun-Sentinel and other Trib…

More on the drowning of Giankarlo Squicimari in Palm Beach, this time from Michael Mayo in the Sun-Sentinel. Mayo reports that there were no lifeguards on the the beach near the Four Seasons Hotel when the riptide took Squicimari and damn near killed a few other people. Look you don’t…

To borrow a phrase from one of our governor’s political heroes, here we go again. The Florida media was awash last week in reports that Charlie Crist, Florida governor and bachelor, is romancing a former beauty queen who starred on the gross-out TV program Fear Factor and will soon vye…

Sunrise City Manager Patrick Salerno was passed over today in his attempt to become the city manager of Sarasota. Among his competitors was Susan Stanton, who was recently fired from Largo after changing her sex. At the time, she was known as Steve Stanton. The question: Why is Salerno trying…

The Palm Beach Post’s S.V. Date, who is in Israel with Charlie Crist, reports that the governor suffered a nasty spider bite in Marathon 11 days ago. These brown recluses are nothing to play with. They’re tiny little things, the picture there shows one in relation to a quarter, but…

Looks like Gremillion is actually taking over six newspapers. Here’s his farewell note to staff: May 29, 2007 TO: Sun-Sentinel Company Employees FROM: Bob Gremillion RE: Farewell By now you’ve probably seen the announcement that I am leaving Sun-Sentinel Company and that Howard Greenberg will be your next publisher. Many…

The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that Howard Greenberg has been promoted to publisher of the Sun-Sentinel while former publisher Robert Gremillion moves up the corporate ladder to oversee four Tribune newspapers. I don’t like it. Gremillion — who will now be the corporate overlord of the Sun-Sentinel, Orlando…

Remember Farris Hassan, the teen who made international news when he snuck off to Iraq last year? Well, now he wants to go to Havana and report on the “loser’s of Castro’s regime,” according to the Miami Herald’s Frances Robles on her Cuban Colada blog. Here’s part of a pitch…

Finally, a personnel move at the Sun-Sentinel to celebrate. In what can only be taken as a rare promising sign, the newspaper has moved columnist Steve Svekis off the Help Team to an unspecified assignment. Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for that experiment in journo-marketing gone…

What follows, from John DeGroot, needs no introduction. The man knows how to find interesting statistics and they tend to indicate Florida is on the highway to hell. Happy Memorial Day Weekend! ________________________________________________ We need to stop blog-flogging the Sun-Sentinel for its tragic fall into the depths of Journalism Lite…

This morning came the first Showtime mag in the Sun-Sentinel with the movie reviews from the wire rather Phoebe Flowers. It really hit home. One was from Associated Press — a right dry little thing — and the other was from Newsday. Might as well read Parade or some other…

The Sun-Sentinel reports that a “super breed” of iguana is infesting Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods. Here’s what resident Denise Fox told the city commission: “One or two in the backyard nine years ago seems kind of fun,” she said. “Now we’ve got 40 or 50 of them.” Fox said the iguanas…