Posted this on Hallandale Beach Blog on Friday, May 16, 2008
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What gives?
ABC News Nightline did an interesting segment on Anthony Pellicano and his practices back on April 4th, and yet didn't even mention the conviction in passing last night.
It seems like everyone in the national media is groggy/jet-lagged/sleepwalking, and already on summer vacation judging by their attention span.
Locally, I guarantee that nothing about the Ben Kuehne story will be mentioned by South Florida media over the weekend.
Shocker!
The Miami Herald has run nothing on the Kuehne situation since April 19th.
If you didn't already know it, Julie Kay of the South Florida Daily Business Review is easily one of the top ten reporters in South Florida.
Yet, sadly most people have never heard of her, even while Channel 10's Dwight Lauderdale, who is retiring next week after 32 years at WPLG, is being given huzzahs and props for simply staying put so long.
Nice guy to be sure, but nobody can point to any actual reporting he's done in eons that's made a tangible difference.
It's bewildering.
I say that as someone who grew-up down here with him and the late Ann Bishop at Channel 10, when they had the number one news program in the state -by far!_______________________________________________
Defamer gets it just right!
Remembering Anthony Pellicano: The End is as Good as it Gets
http://defamer.com/391050/remembering-anthony-pellicano-the-end-is-as-good-as-it-gets
New York Observer
Vanity Fair's Burrough: 'Everyone in Hollywood Got an Advance Copy of That Article'
by Matt Haber
April 7, 2008
http://www.observer.com/2008/vanity-fairs-burrough-everyone-hollywood-got-advance-copy-article
Los Angeles Times
Private eye to the stars is guilty
By Carla Hall and Tami Abdollah
May 16, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-pellicano16-2008may16,0,5288725.story?track=ntothtml
See also:
LA Observed
Anita Busch links Pellicano and Times
By Kevin Roderick
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/anita_busch_links_pellica.php
New York Times
Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps
By David M. Halbfinger
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/16pellicano.html
Associated Press
Hollywood Private Eye Convicted in Wiretap Scheme
By Greg Risling
May 16, 2008
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421431859&pos=ataglance
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The National Law Journal
Miami Criminal Defense Group Rallies to Embattled Attorney's Cause
Julie Kay
May 16, 2008
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421446679
See also: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/05/16/florida-bar-group-to-honor-indicted-miami-lawyer-ben-kuehne/
http://www.southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/
Monday, May 19, 2008
Chelsea Clinton channels 2007 Julie Hamlin -no campaigning on federal property!
Came across this small news story regarding Chelsea Clinton campaigning on federal property in Puerto Rico while scouring the Washington Post online Saturday afternoon while watching the first two games of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse tourney on ESPNU.
(I took particular note of how tenacious the UVA Cavaliers were in coming back to beat the Maryland Terps 8-7, with 31 seconds left in overtime in their quarterfinal game in Annapolis, their second game in a row won by one goal, after defeating UMBC 10-9 last weekend.
Next up for UVA, Syracuse in the Saturday 12 Noon semi-final up in Foxborough, with top-seeded Duke taking on Johns Hopkins in the 2:30 game, a rematch of the 2007 and 2005 NCAA title games, both of which the JHU Blue Jays won.
They've already sold over 40,000 tickets for next weekend's game; hope there's no rain!)
See http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3402330&categoryId=2491548&n8pe6c=3 for highlights and analysis
The story and the principle behind the Chelsea story made me recall my Hallandale Beach Blog post of March 12, 2007, below, regarding Julie Hamlin and a friend of hers campaigning for city commission votes in the U.S. Post Office branch off of Hallandale Beach Blvd. and Layne Blvd., while I was in line. If only I'd had my digital camera with me then!
Election Day picks; Julie Hamlin's campaign tactics
Hamlin went on to place third in the March 2007 Hallandale Beach City Commission race for the two seats available that went to Keith London and William Julian. London led the way with 1,077 votes, Julian placing second with 942 voyes, and Hamlin edging out Hallandale Beach native and community activist Terri Dillard for third place, 759-695.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051402020_pf.html
Chelsea Clinton denied access in Vieques
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wanted to use the land Wednesday as a setting to discussthe candidate's clean up plan for the region and call to give some areas to local residents.
But Navy spokeswoman Lt. Lara Bollinger said no one is allowed to campaign on federal property.Chelsea Clinton is making her second campaign visit to Puerto Rico in the last three weeks. The U.S. territory has 55 delegates at stake in its June 1 Democratic primary.
The Navy closed the range in Vieques in April 2003 following years of protests after two errant bombs killed a security guard.
(I took particular note of how tenacious the UVA Cavaliers were in coming back to beat the Maryland Terps 8-7, with 31 seconds left in overtime in their quarterfinal game in Annapolis, their second game in a row won by one goal, after defeating UMBC 10-9 last weekend.
Next up for UVA, Syracuse in the Saturday 12 Noon semi-final up in Foxborough, with top-seeded Duke taking on Johns Hopkins in the 2:30 game, a rematch of the 2007 and 2005 NCAA title games, both of which the JHU Blue Jays won.
They've already sold over 40,000 tickets for next weekend's game; hope there's no rain!)
See http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3402330&categoryId=2491548&n8pe6c=3 for highlights and analysis
The story and the principle behind the Chelsea story made me recall my Hallandale Beach Blog post of March 12, 2007, below, regarding Julie Hamlin and a friend of hers campaigning for city commission votes in the U.S. Post Office branch off of Hallandale Beach Blvd. and Layne Blvd., while I was in line. If only I'd had my digital camera with me then!
Election Day picks; Julie Hamlin's campaign tactics
Hamlin went on to place third in the March 2007 Hallandale Beach City Commission race for the two seats available that went to Keith London and William Julian. London led the way with 1,077 votes, Julian placing second with 942 voyes, and Hamlin edging out Hallandale Beach native and community activist Terri Dillard for third place, 759-695.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051402020_pf.html
Chelsea Clinton denied access in Vieques
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wanted to use the land Wednesday as a setting to discussthe candidate's clean up plan for the region and call to give some areas to local residents.
But Navy spokeswoman Lt. Lara Bollinger said no one is allowed to campaign on federal property.Chelsea Clinton is making her second campaign visit to Puerto Rico in the last three weeks. The U.S. territory has 55 delegates at stake in its June 1 Democratic primary.
The Navy closed the range in Vieques in April 2003 following years of protests after two errant bombs killed a security guard.