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Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

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At long last, there’s an edge-of-seat movie about journalism where the woman on the I-Team is not sleeping with her boss or her source. That’s just one of a million things to love about “Spotlight.” It’s a two-hour cinematic distillation of two years in the lives of Boston Globe reporters as they piece together the big picture of the Catholic Church’s cover-up of pedophile priests harbored and enabled by Cardinal Bernard Law. Audiences burst into applause as the end credits…

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

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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 to it often, as if it were important. Fake newscaster John Oliver spoke for millions of fed-up, frustrated Americans recently when he told reporters he…

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When reporters attack! Watch as Times reporter Christina Silva question St. Pete City Council Chair Jeff Danner

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From Chris Hrabovsky of The Daily Loaf: “When reporters attack! Watch as St. Petersburg Times reporter Cristina Silva nails St. Pete City Council Chair Jeff Danner on his lies about allowing peace groups to have input in the Baywalk sidewalk issue.” This vide was recorded and posted on YouTube by Danner’s opponent Leonard Schmiege.

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