Well, the new circulation numbers are out and the Miami Herald took it on the chin in a rather stunning way. While the average circulation at the nation’s daily newspapers (with 50,000-plus subscribers) was down an average of 7 percent, the Miami Herald more than doubled that decline, falling 15.8 percent to 202,122…
The latest from John de Groot, the king of interesting statistics. Here you have a lifetime’s supply of information about trash. No wonder the mafia loves the carting business so much. And you thought that smell was coming only from our politicians? It jumps. ——————————————————– Serious Shit In Earth Day…
Today is goodbye for numerous Miami Herald journalists who are part of the recent job cuts at the newspaper. What follows is an email announcing the departures sent to staff today from Senior Editor Mindy Marques. There’s too much here to summarize, but I want to point out that among those…
It’s been amusing to read about the feds’ work on public corruption in Broward County coming from people who know little to nothing about it. Irresponsible and idiotic rumors have been flying about for weeks now. Be patient and believe little of the noise that you hear from the chatterers and toadies. You’ll…
So yes, Thomas Francis, I’m in the new film Outrage about hypocritical gay Republicans. And no, I offer no proof that our governor is gay. Just a lot of compelling evidence. The Academy Award-nominated documentarian Kirby Dick — who has compiled an excellent body of work — came to my house to talk about…
You can’t miss the sprightly older black woman with the sign outside the Fort Lauderdale Police Department picketing on Broward Boulevard. One side of the sign reads “5 Police Beat Me,” and on the other side is “Governor Stop Police Violence.” The woman is 57-year-old Mary Grey, who was apparently recently charged…
Yes, it’s true: Olmeda can be a little square. But he’s also one of the nicer, funnier, and more well-intentioned fellows you’re going to meet (I play softball with him). Tragically, though, his attempt to get some wholesome discussion going among parents quickly goes awry. “shut up you stupid whore! DIE” wrote someone calling themselves Dan…
Federal marshals stole city activist Fane Lozman’s home yesterday. In a true jack-booted thug moment, four armed marshals in black raided Lozman’s houseboat at the Riviera Beach Municipal Marina and towed it down to Miami, leaving Lozman homeless and without all his possessions. They also seized the former U.S. Marine pilot’s three guns, which he owns legally. Lozman’s only…
You must listen to this (courtesy of Scott Wyman). It’s simply not getting enough views (75 after two days? Who says Broward County is apathetic about local politics?). And while listening remember that both Stacy Ritter and Ken Keechl are both at least tangentially subjects of the FBI investigation of Mutual…
Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell won the Pulitzer Prize today for the horrific and harrowing images he captured in Haiti during the devastation wrought last year from hurricanes. I’ve never agreed more with a prize, since Farrell’s photographs crush your heart to look at them. Click here to see them. Interestingly, the…
New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper’s management lexicon gets a fairly new title: “Social Media Coordinator.” It’s all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here’s the memo: Several weeks ago, Seth Liss and Chris Tiedje were…
Several sources have informed the Pulp that Pirtle Construction — one of the largest builders of schools in Broward County with hundreds of millions in current public contracts — has fired lobbyist Neil Sterling as its lobbyist. Why should you care? Well, first of all, Sterling is one of the most…
Deputy Superintendent Michael Garretson has written a memo regarding last week’s column to Superintendent Jim Notter assuring him that the payment of $1 million to an unlicensed firm represented by lobbyist Ron Book was all above board. Hey, I’m going to let Garretson speak for himself and urge you to read the…
All this talk on the news about the right-wing “teabagging” protests is cracking me up. In fact I’m starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up with these…
Last week, newspaper headlines abounded about a lawsuit alleging that the Broward County Courthouse is so full of dangerous mold that it needs to be shut down. One of the companies named in the lawsuit is Texas-based C&B Services, which did cleanup work at the courthouse in the wake of…
This Palm Beach Post memo from the newspaper’s content czar Tim Burke was posted in a comment below; thought it was worth putting out here. The most interesting thing about it is the new lexicon hitting newspaper management these days. “Content Editor” and “Presentation Editor” are two fairly new ones (congrats…
Finally, justice. Or at least a taste of it. Larry Seidlin, the weeping Anna Nicole Smith judge who has chiseled more than a half million dollars from an elderly widow in his condo building, has been removed from the woman’s will. Or I should say Seidlin’s wife and daughter are off the…
Things are tough all over at the Sun-Sentinel. Fresh off the Pulp transom (dailypulp@yahoo.com) is an email sent from the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts to Sun-Sentinel reporters. Apparently the bankrupt Tribune Co. hasn’t been paying for court records, so the clerk had enough. Until the bills are paid, reporters will have to…
Day Two of the morning show and a thought occurs to me: Eugene Ramirez has one of the more unenviable jobs in journalism. Ramirez is sort of the roving reporter for the show and this morning at 5 a.m. he had to do a man-on-the-street segment about the lifting of…
People wonder about what kind of strange and awful mind is behind WSFL’s new morning show. Well, it’s been here all along. The Pulp has been publishing Tribune Innovation Chief Lee Abrams’ “think pieces” for months. I’m not going to expend the brain power right now to try to explain them. Don’t need to, they speak…
I just watched a small portion of the launch of the new Sun-Sentinel morning show on its sister station, WSFL. Celebrating the occasion were Tribune VP Robert Gremillion and Sun-Sentinel Publisher Howard Greenberg, who are pictured at right (for the rest of the photographs, click here). And the show, South Florida.Com, was better…
— U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ordering us to pay $600,000 to a pain pill-pushing doctor is a small outrage. If the prosecutors did wrong in this case with the secret recordings, sanction the U.S. Attorney’s Office, not the taxpayers. Suspend the prosecutors and their supervisors, or, if it’s warranted, fire them…
