For some reason, syndicated newspaper columnist Ann Coulter would very much like to see newspapers die. Presumably because information is a tool of the secular left. She says this is good for news because, uh, it will create more competition. Even though, in South Florida's case, the popular theory is that if either the Herald or the Sentinel bites the dust, the other might take the opportunity to become one massive superpaper for all of South Florida. Surprisingly Coulter isn't making a lot
Two employees of a wire company are charged with stealing remittances that were supposed to head to Cuba. [Herald]Names on the invite list for the straight wedding of the century are leaking. Crist has invited a bunch of political-type people, old FSU frat bros, donors and lobbyists like Ron Book. [Herald]The winners and the losers from Rep. Rivera's slim victory over Chris Curbelo for Miami-Dade's GOP Chief. [Versailles Beat] A wacko white supremacist who threatened The Herald's Pulitzer-winnin
Don't ask Leonard Pitts Jr. Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences
between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might
want to understand what you're talking about first before dashing off a
600-plus word column on it. Pitts' Herald column today takes Twitter to task, in a fashion that woefully misunderstands the internet phenom. "[Twitter]
is supposed to bring interested parties up to date on what you are
doing, seeing, thinking, in that exact mom
Just a week after clueless-ly ravaging Twitter, and 8 months after proclaiming he'll never blog, it seems that one of the the Herald's star columnists, Leonard Pitts Jr,, has started a blog. It's called Pitts' Stop. Cute. So far he's used it to make a post of short micro-updates (hmmm, sort of like tweets) about welcoming his first grandchild into the world, a rehash and response to a Newsweek article, and a post titled "A Shameless Act of Self-Promotion." Personal sharing, responding to others'
Last time we checked in with The Herald's new right-leaning columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa she had caused a minor brouhaha in the blogosphere with her weird inaugural column and the appropriation of a silly monologue from Bull Durham. Now the former editor of The Daily Business Review is four columns into her Herald gig, and she's turned out to be far from the conservative hell demon some had feared/hoped for. Though, her writing isn't really aiming to illicit much passion and since her admission
Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. was in fine form this morning with a column plundering a particularly troublesome line of thought amongst many conservatives that they're now basically an oppressed minority.
Indeed, sometimes [the Conservative movement] feels as if it is no longer defined by principles at all, nor by energy and ideas, but rather, by a limitless ability to feel put upon and slighted. To be a conservative these days is, or so they would have you believe, like be
Sorry Leonard Pitts Jr., you can't have your cake and eat it too. In March, The Miami Herald's star columnist dashed off a "you damn kids, stay off my lawn"-style column in which he solemnly promised never to used Twitter, and claimed it's only useful for those who find "value in banality, cruelty and crudity."We promptly called Pitts' column for what it was -- dumb: What lies beyond the home page is often a quick exchange of information, ideas, and links -- both of the munda
