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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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The Blog for Sunday, June 19, 2005

"Jeb!" vs. NYT

    From Editor and Publisher, "Jeb Bush Battles 'The NY Times' Over Schiavo Case":
    A pitched battle has broken out between Gov. Jeb Bush and The New York Times--on the newspaper's editorial page.

    Two days ago, the Times criticized the governor in an editorial called "Autopsy on the Schiavo Tragedy." While not naming Bush, it denounced "opportunistic politicians" who exploited the case. Today, the Times published a hard-hitting, critical letter from Jeb Bush--and another editorial attacking him.
    it continues
    While not directly responding to the letter, the Times published another editorial, which opened with:

    "After Terri Schiavo was finally allowed to rest in peace on March 31, we hoped she would also have been granted in death what she surely would have wanted - an end to the bitterness that divided her family and made her private suffering a public spectacle....

    "And so it was heartbreaking yesterday to see Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida thrust himself back into this tragedy just two days after the results of Ms. Schiavo's autopsy showed that her condition had been beyond hope and beyond therapy, that she most likely had been in a persistent vegetative state and that her relatives' allegations that she had been abused by her husband were false.
    Much more here. The NYT's coverage, with the editorials and "Jeb!"'s letter indicated by asterisks.

    - *June 16 Editorial: "Autopsy on the Schiavo Tragedy" ("The autopsy results released yesterday should embarrass all the opportunistic politicians and agenda-driven agitators who meddled in Terri Schiavo's right-to-die case.")

    - June 16: "Schiavo Autopsy Says Brain, Withered, Was Untreatable".

    - June 17: "Gov. Bush Seeks New Inquiry Into Schiavo Case".

    - June 18: "Gov. Bush Seeks Another Inquiry in Schiavo Case".

    - *"Jeb!"'s June 18 I am not an opportunistic politician letter to the NYT: "Schiavo's Life and Death"

    - *June 18 Editorial, "Politics and Terri Schiavo" ("Of all the politicians who tragically failed to understand and respect the sanctity and privacy of family life in this case, only Mr. Bush seems determined to save face by disturbing the family's peace further and berating those who had been saying all along that he was going down a terrible road.")

    - June 19: "The Hard Facts Behind a Heartbreaking Case".

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