No longer will Florida’s government agencies be forced to buy expensive space for legal ads in shrinking newspapers. Instead, those announcements can be posted on websites. Good for taxpayers. Bad for newspapers.

Members of the press refer to the dinner as their “nerd prom” implying that they’re smart, nerdy people.

They aren't. They’re lickspittles and lapdogs.

Our only hope now is that the State Corporation Commission will give a big thumbs down to this $10 billion wind farm boondoggle when it votes on the project in August.

For the past 15 years or so, as newspapers circled the drain, they offloaded experienced editors with skills and standards and replaced them with young, agenda-driven propagandists.

Coverage of religion has always been anemic at most American newspapers. When forced to dabble in a news story with a religious twist, reporters tend to treat the faithful as simple, quaint curiosities whose lives are driven by abelief in the supernatural.

I don’t remember these great defenders of the public’s right to know filing lawsuits against the last governor - a Democrat - when he used a bogus claim of privacy rights to refuse to release information about which nursing homes were experiencing Covid outbreaks.

There was a time when any half-baked, partially sober editor would have thrown those stories back at reporters and asked them to make a phonecall to confirm that every superintendent was on board with the letter. That clearly didn’t happen. It fit a narrative, that was enough for these “news” organizations.

During the past year questioning the lockdowns, the mandates, the curfews, school closings and the genesis of the virus generally got one dismissed as a “Trumptard” instead of a liberty-loving American. Don’t ask me how I know.

The AP is deeply worried about offending women who sleep with married men. Makes you wonder if cheaters hired a p.r. firm to bring pressure on the Stylebook staff.

Good reporters are meticulous about getting quotes right. They review their notes and examine quotes word-for-word to ensure accuracy, even when they contain grammatical errors or curse words.

“Austere management practices” is a polite way of saying that hedge funds like Alden buy struggling newspapers, slash costs to the bone and slurp up advertising revenue, vampire-style.