How Journalists Should Go Beyond Fact-Checking Trump’s Routine Lies and...
The story is that the president-elect is more factually irresponsible than any political leader in the United States in memory. Chasing it will be just one challenge of the next four years. The post...
View Article72 Hours Into the Job, Sheriff Staly Calls His 1st News Conference to...
Sheriff Rick Staly said he took the first burglary on his watch "personally" as he described how deputies and detectives recovered and seized items from recent thefts. The post 72 Hours Into the Job,...
View ArticlePresident Fake
We've been worried about fake news from all the wrong places. The most promiscuous peddler of fake news is the president himself, Donald J. Trump. That's dangerous for media, for America and for...
View ArticleI Am An Enemy Combatant
The media has been the enemy since the earliest days of the Republic. But to be an enemy in America is what all of us at one point or another have been or will be. It is an American responsibility....
View ArticleHillary’s Movie: Spoiler Alert
The Republican temper tantrum over the nascent NBC Hillary Clinton movie tells us only one thing: The GOP is scared to death of a Hillary presidential run. How else can you explain the weeping and...
View ArticleSheriff Manfre Drafts the Press to Fight The Bogus Epidemic of Fake Pot
The bogus drug-bust news conference was a specialty of former Sheriff Don Fleming, as it has been for innumerable police agencies since the dawn of Nixon;s war on drugs since 1971. Last week, Sheriff...
View ArticleObama’s Free Press Problem: Why Reporters in the U.S. Now Need Protection
The Obama administration has made the most concerted effort since the Nixon years to intimidate officials from talking to a reporter. Paul Steiger, Paul Steiger recipient of this year's the Burton...
View ArticleBlogger Peter Schorsch Resigns from Florida Press Association After...
Dean Ridings, press association president and CEO, said Peter Schorsch, creator and editor of the influential SaintPetersBlog, which is followed by many journalists, politicians and lobbyists across...
View ArticleTrouble at the Tampa Bay Times, D.C. Decriminalizes Pot, Mozart’s “Kiss My...
The Tampa Bay Times is losing readers and money, Orlando gets its first natural gas station, Washington D.C. sees the light on pot, Hollywood, Fla. police has a problem, Sherwin Nuland dies, and...
View ArticleGeorge Will’s Sex Assault Chauvinism
The oft-reported number of sex assault in college is likely too inflated, but when columnist George Will insisted that women who say they have been raped assume a “coveted status” on campus, it was as...
View ArticleBloodbath at Deteriorating Tallahassee Democrat Is Newspapers’ Latest...
The story of the Tallahassee Democrat’s decomposition is a deeper cautionary tale on how monopoly media can turn a vibrant, growing community into a cloistered cultural backwater. The post Bloodbath at...
View Article500,000! FlaglerLive Crosses Half-Million Reader Mark in October
FlaglerLive ended October with close to 550,000 readers for the month, a new record and further indication that as print struggles to maintain its mass-market appeal, the media landscape is changing...
View ArticleWhen Government Manipulates Press and Public, and the Press Plays Along
From Flagler County to Washington, government's attempts to control stories come down to the same manipulative ploys for the same specious reasons, but the press too often plays along. The post When...
View ArticleToday’s The Day to Support the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
The Miami-based Florida Center for Investigative Reporting is one of the state's leading non-profit news source, whose work frequently appears in FlaglerLive. The post Today’s The Day to Support the...
View ArticleThe FBI’s Palm Coast Visit and Jim Landon’s Accuracy Problem
Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon Tuesday accused local media of mis-characterizing the FBI's recent interview of two city officials, but it was Landon who distorted the record and derided the local...
View ArticleBrian Williams and Baghdad Bob
When Brian Williams lied about being shot in a helicopter, it was part of a broader pattern of bogus stories the American media were too happy to broadcast about the war in Iraq as it sped to George W....
View ArticleWhy Journalism Should Be Addicted to David Carr
Unlike many aging baby boomers, the New York Times's David Carr, who died last week, had no fear of new technology and no contempt for young people who did not equate the survival of newspapers with...
View ArticleIn Defense of Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly deserves conservatives' admiration, not their disdain, for leveling the sort of tough questions at Donald Trump and other candidates that should be asked of any presidential hopefuls,...
View ArticleAlone Among 50 States, Florida’s Ban on Prison Newspaper Is Upheld
Florida Corrections officials have censored the publications for six years, objecting to certain ads and calling them a security risk. No other state prison system agrees. The post Alone Among 50...
View ArticleLatest Florida Newspaper Layoffs Claim Lloyd Dunkelberger of Tallahassee and...
Following the latest round of reporter layoffs, they will be replaced, if at all, by younger, cheaper bodies who have not necessarily been taught the difference between putting bylines on news releases...
View ArticleGoodbye News-Journal
Rick de Yampert, the former arts writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, explains why he cancelled his newspaper subscription for the first time in 43 years. The post Goodbye News-Journal appeared...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s War on Media: The Case For Fighting Back
It’s not a stretch to say that last week in Daytona and Thursday night in Kissimmee, Trump and his surrogates were literally inciting mobs against the media. Not casually or with humor, but with...
View ArticleAppeals Court Sides With Florida Prisons in Public Records Dispute With Miami...
The Florida prisons department was required to provide item-by-item legal explanations for its decisions to black out information on public records requested by the Herald --- a process known as...
View ArticleTrump-Bashing’s Indictment as Americans’ Trust in Mainstream Media Sinks to a...
Covering Trump's contradictory and rash statements is one thing. That's the media's job. But there isn't a commentator or an anchor on CNN who doesn't wear a Clinton heart on his or her sleeve. With 53...
View ArticleAs Local News Outlets Shutter, Rural America Suffers Most
Amid the steady decline in local news, some states are considering stepping in to support the Fourth Estate. But critics worry that doing so might undermine the press’s role as a government watchdog....
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