Florence SnyderSeptember 20, 2024
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Let's hope there's an internet cafe in heaven.
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Be patient. Limit distractions. Stay safe.
Florence SnyderMay 21, 2019
13min356
"They don’t socialize today. They are in their corners."
Florence SnyderDecember 26, 2017
3min412
It took a while, but John Heilemann‘s chickens came home to roost, as chickens always do. Political infotainment addicts know Heilemann as the bald half of the ubiquitous Beltway byline Mark Halperin & John Heilemann. H & H have a gift for glibness and a talent for spinning very small nuggets of news into very […]
Florence SnyderDecember 4, 2017
5min395
America will have equality when mediocre women and minorities can go as far in broadcast news as mediocre white men. Right now, they can’t. Tonight, yet another middle aged white male mediocrity will make his anchorman debut at the CBS Evening News. The CBS gene pool has come a long way down since the anchor’s chair was […]
Florence SnyderOctober 10, 2017
5min241
Eleven days ago, Gov. Rick Scott dropped a news release proposing a 10 percent pay raise for juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers. Today, the Miami Herald dropped its comprehensive carpet bomb on Scott’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Maybe it’s a coincidence. The Herald’s book-length investigative series is a stomach-churning compilation of examples of […]
Florence SnyderJuly 16, 2017
3min409
In Westeros, rape is the sport of kings and a pastime for peasants. Game of Thrones-watchers have been moved to anger, angst and apoplexy over the steady stream of sexually-based offenses inflicted upon women in the Seven Kingdoms. This is a puzzlement to Sophie Turner, who made her acting debut at age 13 as the […]
Florence SnyderJune 1, 2017
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An unvarnished, unqualified apology is hard to find these days, so let’s take a moment to thank Duval County Circuit Judge Hugh Carithers for reminding us what it looks like. Last month, the 1st District Court of Appeal repealed an unfortunate order of a Jacksonville-based hearing officer, and replaced it with a reminder that hearing […]
Florence SnyderMay 22, 2017
3min356
In 1960s Dade County, men who were privileged to be newspaper columnists could — and did — mock “women’s libbers” like Roxcy Bolton in the pages of the Miami Herald. Department stores could — and did — have fancy private dining rooms open only to men. Banks could — and did — deny credit cards […]
Florence SnyderMay 13, 2017
4min305
Pictures of the young Bill Cooke show a brooding, handsome, James Dean kind of guy who seems to belong in front of a camera. Lucky for us that he did not see himself that way. Cooke died last week at age 70, leaving behind a sister, a heartbroken Florida journalism community, and a body of […]