Editorials
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30 November 2011 at 14 : 11 PM
OPINION: The Palm Beach Post’s Consultant is a Dud!
When The Palm Beach Post was forced by its owners in Atlanta to hire a California readership consultant in 2008, the goal was for the consultant, Frank N. Magid Associates Inc., to tell a staff with plenty experience how to slow down a decline in readership. Three years later, the Post is selling nearly 70,000 fewer newspapers on weekdays and ...
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31 October 2011 at 16 : 55 PM
OPINION: Making Political Hay Out of Dangerous Criminals
When incidents involving middle-of-the-night attacks on unsuspecting motorists started occurring with increasing frequency in May, authorities used the media to tell citizens to be on the look-out. And the media played the game. It always does. TV stations and the newspapers dutifully put out every details about the crime wave, on the schedule of law ...
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23 October 2011 at 11 : 04 AM
OPINION: Can Palm Beach State Attorney Michael McAuliffe be Trusted?
Like many politicians before him, Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe wants taxpayers to trust him blindly. They shouldn’t – especially not in a county rife with public corruption and conflicts of interest. A Democrat married to Circuit Court Judge Robin Rosenberg, McAuliffe rode an anti-corruption tide into local office in ...
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16 October 2011 at 14 : 00 PM
OPINION: Time For Readers And Advertisers to Pull The Plug on The Palm Beach Post?
You're getting laid off. You're getting one week's pay per year served. And, by the way, your health insurance runs out at midnight! That's the message that 20-plus employees received from their managers at The Palm Beach Post Friday. And as the last few of you who still subscribe (about 100,000) open your newspapers this morning, keep this in mind: ...
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8 October 2011 at 21 : 19 PM
OPINION: Who Can We Thank For Ex-WPB Police Chief Delsa Bush?
Something may have been overlooked this week in the saga of West Palm Beach Police Chief Delsa Bush. Bush was allowed by the city’s brass to behave like a spoiled brat. She wavered on when to quit. Then she resigned in a choreographed hissy fit during a phone call to City Administrator Ed Mitchell Thursday – as a WPBF-Channel 25 camera ...
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