Things got a little dirty last night when the Orlando Sentinel’s editorial board posted its sand-kicking opinion on Florida House Bill 655, and things also got a little more confusing. The anti-sick-time bill currently rests on Gov. Rick Scott’s desk and is, regardless of logic or compassion or 11,000 petitions delivered in strollers asking...
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While we’ve been long doting on our local farmers, chefs and restaurants, we’re glad to see the rest of the country is taking note that Florida can handle its own in the culinary arena.
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There's a petition circulating via signon.org to keep the dastardly duo of David and Charles Koch from purchasing the Orlando Sentinel.
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A few years ago, I went to one of those MoveOn house parties where the featured entertainment was a screening of Robert Greenwald’s documentary Outfoxed. A bunch of us Orlando-area libs sat and watched in horrified fascination as Greenwald laid out the way in which the Fox News Channel had established itself as a disinformation...
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In March, we reported in Happytown that there was some speculation that the Koch Bros., the conservative, wealthy duo from Koch Family Industries who use their money to throw their weight behind such dubious causes as ALEC and Americans for Prosperity, were rumored to have interest in getting into the print-news business. Specifically...
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Having just witnessed (via technology) a pretty ridiculous Oscar moment from Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs at this morning’s Board of County Commissioners meeting – seriously, after effectively throwing-under-the-bus-while-namechecking Sentinel staff writer David Damron for his explosive story on Saturday (she demands a rewrite!), Jacobs squeezed out some crocodile tears and invoked her deceased...
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Many of you may be familiar with the story that came out in the Sentinel on Saturday (late Friday night online) detailing just how much deeper the problems of influence from the big business community and the chamber of commerce are on your local government. As the newspaper reported, some kind of mistake...
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What did you think of Mitt Romney’s big speech? (If you’re having trouble remember, it was the thing that happened just after the Great Clint Eastwood Performance Art Meltdown of 2012, which we suspect was secretly arranged by the Obama campaign, those cunning devils.) Well, as it turns out, the Orlando Sentinel thought it was...
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Orlando Sentinel editor mark Russell’s Sunday column, explaining how the paper is reducing its newshole to bolster its local coverage, got some play in Jim Romenesko’s media blog today. Russell wrote in his column: For starters, the move to cut news pages was driven by our need to reduce expenses. A newsroom’s biggest costs...
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After yesterday’s article by Mark Schlueb in the Orlando Sentinel on the “truce” between the city and Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB), as well as our own coverage of the group in this week’s edition of Happytown, some of those affiliated with OFNB have taken umbrage with the media’s verbiage. Both the Sentinel and...
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