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Florence SnyderFebruary 26, 2015

Former governor and probable presidential hopeful Jeb Bush calls them “the 20 people who talk to each other.” You know, the folks who make their living in and around The Permanent Campaign. There’s an Internet site that counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds from one election to the next. The political press refers […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 26, 2015

Former governor and probable presidential hopeful Jeb Bush calls them “the 20 people who talk to each other.” You know, the folks who make their living in and around The Permanent Campaign. There’s an Internet site that counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds from one election to the next. The political press refers […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 25, 2015

Media bashers, media ethicists and the Greek chorus at Comedy Central will be gorging for a long time on the disgraced remains of Brian Williams. But the credibility crisis now engulfing NBC News is not Williams’ fault. It is never the reporter’s fault. An “anchor and managing editor” is neither God nor a kid with […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 24, 2015

If you don’t live in Miami Gardens, you probably think its police department is no concern of yours. Ira Glass thinks otherwise. This week, the host of This American Life used his highly respected program to bring the Miami Herald’s reporting on the out-of-control police department to his international audience of public radio listeners. The tale was […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 23, 2015

“Saturday Night Live” patriarch Lorne Michaels produced an incredibly entertaining one-hour tribute to himself on the occasion of the show’s 40th anniversary. Sad to say it dragged on two and a half hours longer than it should have, because who’s going to say “no” to the founder of one of the entertainment industry’s most enduring […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 18, 2015

Like all addicts, David Carr had a drug of choice. His was journalism. He craved the constant rush that the news business provides. The endorphins unleashed in the newsrooms where he worked in Minnesota and Washington and New York made for a better high than “the frantic kind of boring” that Carr described in his memoir about […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 16, 2015

It’s not every day that a divorce lawyer reports her own client to the state’s child abuse hotline. But that’s what John Jonchuck’s lawyer did on January 7, when Jonchuck showed up at the firm’s office dressed in pajamas and toting his five-year-old daughter Phoebe, along with a Bible which he incorrectly believed to be written in Swedish. Jonchuck’s lawyer told the Hotline that […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 12, 2015

It’s not every day that a divorce lawyer reports her own client to the state child abuse hotline. But that’s what John Jonchuck‘s lawyer did. On Jan. 7, Jonchuck showed up at the firm’s office dressed in pajamas, toting his 5-year-old daughter Phoebe, along with a Bible he incorrectly believed to be written in Swedish. Jonchuck’s lawyer told the Hotline that her client was “out-of-his-mind […]

Florence SnyderMarch 31, 2014

Florida agency heads have been lying to reporters, spinning like dreidels, and withholding public records since the Chiles administration. So let’s give Rick Scott’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner points for breaking new ground with his prior restraint on journalist, author, Florida State University (FSU) professor and all-around state treasure Diane Roberts. Roberts is an eighth […]

Florence SnyderMarch 19, 2014

Editor Lenore Devore thinks reporters should look at the wheat to be found in public records, and not the chaff of press releases peddled by taxpayer-supported ministers of disinformation. So when the Lakeland Police Department’s “public information officer” stonewalled a young police reporter looking to flesh out details of a shooting, Devore did what good […]

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Florence Snyder: Fed up with elite reporters on “Permanent Campaign”

Florence Snyder: Fed up with elite reporters on "Permanent Campaign"

Florence Snyder: Blame NBC editors for Brian Williams' lies

Florence Snyder: Miami Gardens police turn friends (like Quickstop job creator) into enemies

Florence Snyder: Follow SNL's rules of comedy, and comedy rules

Florence Snyder: Why journalism should be addicted to David Carr

Florence Snyder: DCF's Orwellian response to child thrown from bridge

Florence Snyder: Phoebe Jonchuck tragedy reveals underpaid staff, DCF doublespeak

Florence Snyder: Detzner praises “witty” speaker, then cancels her lecture

Florence Snyder: It’s Sunshine Week: Meet a young woman from the Old School