Did you follow that story about the drug dealers in Palmetto Park who were arrested for trying to terrorize crime watch leaders by throwing Molotov cocktails at their houses?
That was the story from the perspective of the St. Pete Times, at least.
The Trib (and WFLA-8) took another tack: The big news wasn't that the feds had made an arrest. The real story was that one of the crime-watch coordinators, a white man, had allegedly "used the 'n word'" in expressing his anger to a police officer about a previous attack, and that on June 30 he'd been removed from his post.
Sure, that's the real problem in Palmetto Park: Bad words. It's not the fire bombs, it's the n-bomb.
— David Warner
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2006.