The 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 ArticleCool to Sudden Roma Court Proposal, Flagler Sheriff Restates Preferences for...
Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre was surprised by an unexpected proposal from the owner of Roma Court, the chronically vacant strip mall on Palm Coast Parkway, to lease the building to the county for...
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...
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