Edited by author 10-15-2003 05:33 PM
Janet Weaver hired by the Poynter Institute? The parent company of the St. Petersburg Times? What does this say about Poynter?
Janet emptied out the Sarasota Herald-Trib's newsroom when she transformed the newspaper into the tool of corporate conservatives, staffing it with recipe-writing fluff-weights instead of journalists.
The Herald-Trib recently dropped its online Forum because free speech grates on Janet's nerves. Instead of zealously guarding the 1st Amendment, Weaver takes an adversarial stance against anonymous online posters who are not p.c. and don't spout the Trib's party line. And Janet's Trib dropped its online Forum just when Katherine Harris started her mass-mailing political campaign (Oct. 2003) And, mind you, immediately after an anonymous poster directed readers to the fine Web site, BushorChimp.com.