Category: Scoop
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Hopefully, Will Rogers was watching from heaven when Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was recently interviewed by Major Garrett on CBS Morning News. Blanche appeared on the program to discuss the grand jury indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. Garrett once again demonstrated he is a superb journalist. Blanche, however, showed something else altogether.
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At the time of this writing, the gunman who attempted to crash the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night did so less than 12 hours ago. Already, the conspiracy machine is spitting out its usual slop: Trump’s “people” staged the event. Fine. Any story can fall under the umbrella of possibility. But our truth-based
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida will welcome veteran sports media executive and author Marc Appleman as its featured speaker at the Newsmaker Luncheon on Friday, April 24, 2026, at Lujack’s Restaurant in Naples. The luncheon begins at noon at Lujack’s, located at 7935 Airport Pulling Road North, Suite 20. Registration opens at 11:30 a.m. Click
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I keep thinking about something the historian Yuval Noah Harari said recently, matter-of-factly, but with the weight of history behind it: In the contest between fiction and truth, fiction usually wins because “…the competition between fiction and truth, fiction least politically, usually wins because the truth is just too painful and too complicated.” Not because
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Our Program Committee is in the early stages of putting together a special 25th anniversary commemoration panel discussion to be held this September, and we need your help. Leading up to that luncheon meeting, we plan to publish your stories in SCOOP. We’re looking for articles about where you were on September 11, 2001, and how
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Last week, a federal judge took a commendably principled stance for journalists and the public’s right to know. Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled in favor of defending the truth against corrupt power. In striking down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempt to control who reports from the Pentagon, Judge Friedman didn’t just rule on a policy;
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My grandmother came to spend the Christmas holidays with me in Washington, D.C. It was 1987, and I was excited to host my sweet, gentle grandmother, who’d never been to the nation’s capital. There was so much I wanted to show her. To my surprise, she just wanted to visit Arlington National Cemetery. It was
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On the night of September 26, 1983, a Soviet military officer sat alone in a command bunker outside Moscow, staring at a computer screen that indicated the United States had just launched nuclear missiles. The system was certain. The warning lights flickered. The computers claimed the attack was genuine. The protocol required Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
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The Press Club’s Board of Governors approved several motions on February 17th aimed at strengthening the organization by welcoming new voices and leadership. The board selected Heidi Rambo Centrella as Vice President of the Press Club, a role that had been vacant for the past several years. For those unfamiliar with Heidi, she is the