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People don’t want the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.—Friedrich Nietzsche By the end of 2025, journalists will no longer need convincing that truth is under attack. What we still need to understand, honestly and without arrogance, is…
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida is proud to announce that Barbara Petersen, CEO of the Florida Center for Government Accountability (FCGA), will be the featured newsmaker speaker at our January 14, 2026, luncheon. At a time when transparency, accountability, and public…
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By the time you read this commentary, you will have attended the Press Club’s Newsmaker luncheon with Francis Rooney, or you’ll read David Silverberg’s account in next week’s edition of SCOOP. My deadline for this edition of SCOOP…
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“I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.” –Brian Regan Can you relate? Every few years, a headline circulates through our national conversation, asking whether Americans are “getting dumber.” Recently, New…
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On Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Hilton Naples, the Press Club of Southwest Florida is pleased and proud to present Francis Rooney, a successful businessman, public servant, former U.S. Representative, and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, as…
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There is no gentle way to say this: The America that today’s young journalists will cover is not the America my generation inherited. It is more divided, more suspicious, more anxious, and more openly hostile to truth. We…
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida welcomed two influential voices to its November Newsmakers Luncheon, Dave Lougee, former President and CEO of TEGNA, and Maria Jimenez-Lara, CEO of the Naples Children Foundation (NCF), for a wide-ranging conversation that…
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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” That old truth has never felt more urgent than in this moment, when the President of the United States dismisses a reporter with the words “Quiet, piggy,” and then,…
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On Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Hilton Naples, the Press Club of Southwest Florida is pleased and proud to present Francis Rooney, a successful businessman, public servant, former U.S. Representative, and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, as…
