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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a strange entry on the Sunday opinion page of The Miami Herald: "Palin news is balanced; opinion line up isn't". Apparently the right wing spin machine is hard at work on the mainstream media: ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos writes of Palin's supporters, that they are wrong about slanted coverage in the Herald but that they "are right, however, about the paper's opinion columns, where there...
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aammaamm28's weblog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Olive Garden and Red Lobster customers will have to pay a bit more for their favorite dishes in the months ahead as the restaurant chains struggle to keep revenue and profit growing in a depressed economy. On a conference call with analysts Wednesday the parent company of both brands Darden Restaurants headquartered in Orlando said its prices in the fiscal year that began this summer will be higher...
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Nancy Dahlberg, the Business Monday editor at the Miami Herald, has accepted a buyout and is leaving the paper after 17 years on the business news desk. No replacement has been named yet. Dahlberg has also been an assistant business editor and Sunday business editor at the paper. Before that, she was an assistant business editor [...]
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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
In the reporting of the "voter ID" controversy ("Law puts thousands of Florida voter IDs in question"), the Miami Herald focuses on the claim by the State of Florida that it wants to eliminate voter fraud such as that described as "joke names". ( To sign the Progress Florida petition to Governor Charlie Crist and Secretary of State Kurt Browning, asking them to "protect our vote", click here .) The...
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
BBC News Veco CEO wanted ‘no paper trail' on Stevens' home, bookkeeper …The Miami Herald, FL - 25 minutes agoTed Stevens home in Alaska, the oil services company covered up the nature of the work in its own internal books, the corporate bookkeeper testified Friday. …Video: Sen. Stevens Corruption Trial Begins AssociatedPressSenator's day in court Anchorage Daily News [...]
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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Rumor has it that Matt Pinzur (the County reporter with Chuck Rabin) has quit and is off to work for County Manager George Burgess. All you county people that spilled your guts to him about county shenanigans: Use us next time! We would never spill the beans or sell you out and we would never write for the Miami Herald nor work for the County. Vile Natacha is now your boss Matt and she hates the newspaper....
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
BY SUSANNAH A. NESMITH The prosecution on Wednesday finished its efforts to rebut defense claims that Michael Hernandez was insane when he killed 14-year-old Jaime Gough in a Southwood Middle School bathroom. Attorneys plan to present their closing arguments to the jury at 1 p.m. Hernandez's defense attorneys argued he was insane at the time -- that in his delusional, 14-year-old mind he
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Doug Delp, a journalist whose career spanned four decades and included work in many capacities for two major South Florida newspapers, died Tuesday of complications after abdominal surgery.
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Miami Herald Edward Schumacher-Matos says the Herald shouldn't be overly aggressive with its investigation of the new Miami-Dade schools boss who may have had an affair with an ex-Herald reporter. "Scandal-mongering and 'gotcha journalism' are among the reasons the media have fallen in public polls to such low levels of esteem," he writes. "The public merely lumps all 'media' together. One way to...
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
A new Miami Herald poll finds Sen. John McCain "is nursing a narrow lead" over Sen. Barack Obama in Florida, 47% to 45%. Key finding: "The survey of 800 likely voters echoed the economic jitters of the nation, as 43 percent of voters said the economy should be the next president's top concern. That's a three-to-one margin over the next two top issues: managing the war in Iraq, at 14 percent, and protecting...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
In a Florida poll taken after last Monday's economic tumble, the Miami Herald reports John McCain has a statistically insignificant 2 point lead over Barack Obama. If you scroll through the graphic of results, you will see that McCain leads on commander-in-chief issues but Obama leads on economic issues. That's good news for Obama because 43% believe the next president's most important issue will...
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
A Miami Herald article about Sen. John McCain's September 15 campaign stop in Orlando quoted McCain saying he "fought for" comprehensive immigration legislation and criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for "propos[ing] amendments that would have killed" it. But the article did not report that McCain said during the Republican primary this year that he would no longer vote for his own immigration bill if...
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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Matt Haggman reports: Bad mortgage brokers ran wild, Florida admits. He wrote: "In a stinging critique of the state's oversight of the mortgage industry, top Florida investigators found that state regulators failed to alert police agencies to crooked mortgage brokerages, ignored citizen complaints and allowed hundreds of people with criminal histories to peddle loans." Does this mean people can sue...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Perhaps it is time for the remaining Miami Herald employees to break out the Santeria rooster once again. Just three months after announcing job cutbacks in June, the Miami Herald has just announced that it is axing another 119 employees (emphasis mine): Three months after announcing plans to trim 250 jobs, the Miami Herald Media Co. said Tuesday it is cutting another 119 positions, or about 10 percent...
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Media Matters (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
A Miami Herald article about Sen. John McCain's September 15 campaign stop in Orlando quoted McCain saying he "fought for" comprehensive immigration legislation and criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for "propos[ing] amendments that would have killed" it. But the article did not report that McCain said during the Republican primary this year that he would no longer vote for his own immigration bill if...