#newsblackout -For over a week the Miami Herald’s management and editors didn’t allow anything to appear in-print or on their blogs about the furor erupting from Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker column about the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill, S.744, i.e.Rubio’s Folly. The influential piece, which featured Rubio aide Alex Conant saying something controversial that won’t win him any friends in Northwest Miami’s Black community, and which has been discussed and analyzed in so many national websites and blogs, has still NOT been in the main newspaper or political blog of the city where Rubio is from and the state that he represents in Washington. Not sure how I can make that any simpler for those of you who are late arrivals to the story.

Even in Miami, with its traditionally low standards for performance and competency, they don’t give awards to professional reporters who go out of their way to ignore timely and relevant news about important public policy issues. But that’s exactly what has taken place here.

The Tampa Bay Times broke their own news blackout on the Lizza & Rubio story last Tuesday and the Orlando Sentinel last Wednesday.
The pro-amnesty Herald isn’t budging and is keeping its head firmly buried in the sand.