Miami - Miami Herald - Fired Reporter

This Florida connection has gotten some MSM news play. Jim DeFede was fired by the Miami Herald because he taped a phone conversation with a Miami politician who killed himself. DeFede was a friend of the suicide and was so "thoughtful" to write about it, using notes from the (supposedly illegal) tape recorded conversation.

I really want to care, because it's another case of the MSM having different standards from the rest of us. If someone else had illegally tape recorded this, they would have gladly published everything, because the people's right to know trumps everything. In fact, if what they publish gets someone killed, such as a CIA agent, well that's how the Constitution crumbles. But when it looks like their employee committed a crime, for which they might share some legal responsibility, weeeelll, now that's verrrrry different.

I lived in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area for so many years that at first I didn't think anything about this. The Miami Herald has long been a liberal fish (or conch) wrapper, that I expect it to have no concrete values...news-wise or otherwise.

(Above link is from Florida Cracker who also has much more commentary on her site)