By Jim Bleyer The public has had enough. Mainstream media entities that purport to report unvarnished news must be held accountable for their transgressions—slanting coverage, contorting facts, omitting information. HAL 9000, the futuristic computer in the Space Odyssey series, would go haywire attempting to tally the mushrooming mountain …
By Mark Calvert, from Eye on Tampa Bay Curiously, the Tampa Bay Times recently started reporting the All for Transportation tax hike in Hillsborough County will raise $15.8 billion over 30 years, while they consistently called it at $280 million per year, $9 billion tax before and just after …
By Jim Bleyer The Tampa Bay Times once meant something in Hillsborough County despite its sparring with a credible rival in the Tampa Tribune. But that era ended years ago. Someone forgot to pass that info on to Times publisher Paul Tash …
By Jim Bleyer The Tampa Bay Times won’t let go of Kevin King. Apparently still stung by backing the ill-fated Rick Baker in last year’s City of St. Petersburg mayoral race, the Times still publishes unproven, insane sexual harassment accusations against Mayor Kriseman’s chief of staff. Never mind that …
By Jim Bleyer With approximately $100 million in debt and operating nowhere near profitability, the Tampa Bay Times is in its death throes as a viable, traditional newspaper entity, Tampa Bay Beat has learned. The pension plan is in jeopardy. Assets have been mortgaged. Filing bankruptcy could very well …
By Jim Bleyer First, the bad news. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, the area’s much beloved alternative weekly, was bought out by Euclid Media Group. Known as EMG, it owns a portfolio of nine such city publications including the Orlando Weekly. EMG has shown a penchant for marginalizing and, in …
By Jim Bleyer There were two notable developments this week that strained the trust of even the most gullible reader. First, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham, running third and steadily plummeting in the primary polls, claimed she is the only candidate from her …
By Jim Bleyer Aside from not being in the hunt for Amazon HQ2, what do Las Vegas and Tampa Bay share in common? Both have daily newspapers that were bailed out by conservative billionaires. Once categorized as “mainstream media,” the papers have rapidly transformed themselves into fake news …
By Jim Bleyer Darryl Shaw, who has built a multi-million dollar real estate empire in Ybor City, may be one of the Republican “investors” who helped bail the Tampa Bay Times out of its economic morass earlier this year, sources have told Tampa Bay Beat In a call to …
By Jim Bleyer A year ago significant others Yvonne Fry and Mark Ober sat on top of Hillsborough County’s political world. He: a four-term state attorney heavily favored for a fifth. She: a politically ambitious civic activist and a district favorite to win an open legislative or county commission …
