George 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 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...
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