Palm Beach Post Tally chief reassigned
September 24, 2007 at 3:47 pm by Wayne GarciaOur alt-brother in South Florida, Bob Norman at The Daily Pulp, reports that Palm Beach Post editors have done a 180 and have reassigned their Tallahassee bureau chief Shirish Date to cover the Legislature instead of the governor’s office, where his wife, Mary Beth, was recently hired as a budget analyst. Post Managing Editor Bill Rose initially told The Buzz that Date’s wife’s hiring wouldn’t pose a conflict. I wrote on the subject last week, pointing out that Date is not alone in the Tallahassee press corps in having a spouse on the state payroll. But the Date link was very direct and very recent and was clearly something the newspaper couldn’t afford to let go on, despite its earlier brush-off of the notion that Date would be conflicted.
