Will SNN 6 pull a Phoenix move?
Hearing rumblings last night and today that SNN 6 may not be down for the count after all. Sure all the employees were officially terminated and sure people around town have been saying SNN was done for. But there might be life yet in this local favorite — meaning SNN 6. I put in a […]
Death of a news station — a mini timeline
November 13, 2008: The Pelican Press reports on a “rumor” that the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s 24-hour cable news station – SNN 6 – is on the sale block for $2 million. PP reports that Sarasota H-T Publisher Diane McFarlin answered their inquiry with the following statement “‘SNN 6 is not for sale.’” Though in the news […]
SNN severance clarification … and a bit more about our man Bruce
Bruce Asbury contacted me this morning to correct one of his statements from our conversation of yesterday. “I made a slight error in the severance,” Asbury told me today. The 26-week severance payout mentioned in yesterday’s post was only for employees who’d been with SNN 6 for more than 13 years, Asbury said today, — […]
Sarasota news takes another dive — SNN signs off!
Yesterday I gave a talk at the University of South Florida (more on that later) about blogging and the diminishing content of print and other local media in Sarasota. The class — full of inveterate newspaper readers — loudly lamented the decreasing size of the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the declining offerings of other local […]
My date with Gwen … a woman in I-full
Hmmmmm … Absolut Yum! I went tonight to see and listen to Gwen Ifill speak at Hyatt Sarasota to a Sarasota audience about race and politics and the Obama campaign and the future of black candidates in American politics.
Not so social Sarasota
The following column originally appeared in print in 2007, and it brought a plethora of responses from readers. I actually ended up meeting some pretty wonderful people over the ensuing months — a group of wonderful women who’d read the column and invited me to join their book club, and a heavy-hitting businessman who invited […]
Letter to the editors
Dear Editors Back in the day, you’d buy the Sunday Sarasota Herald-Tribune and be assured of curling up for an hour of juicy reading, drinking one or two cups of coffee while fending off the cats who felt it was their duty to hold the paper down on the floor by sprawling languidly across it, […]
The happy hangover — the final Inauguration/Inebriation post
I spent Inauguration Day glued to my television, working only intermittently on the client work piled up on my desk and in my Outlook e-box. That night, I went to a couple of Inauguration Day parties, beginning with one at the stunning home of A & F — one of the smartest, funnest (yes, I […]
Sarasota’s real rich
This column first appeared in print in 2006. ———————— I know some really rich people here in Sarasota. George, for example. (That’s his nom de column.) I met George and his wife at a salon-style dinner and discussion group I attend from time to time. He’s a hot ticket. George is unbelievably au courant when […]
Last night of being Bush-wacked!
I couldn’t stay home tonight, on this last night of being Bush-wacked for eight long years, so I put on my Obama earrings and headed out on the town. I was running around Sarasota like a crazy woman asking people to tell me how they felt about their last night of being Bush-wacked and/or what […]