Florida governor blocks Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times from coronavirus press conference

[mia]

...A reporter for the state capital bureau operated jointly by two of Florida’s largest newspapers was denied access Saturday to a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis detailing the state’s latest efforts to contain one of the largest outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in the country.

Mary Ellen Klas, the Herald’s bureau chief for the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau, said she was refused entry into the Capitol in Tallahassee to attend a press briefing by the governor, lieutenant governor, director of emergency management and state surgeon general regarding COVID-19 testing, access to medicine and efforts to prevent New Yorkers from flying into the state....

The Herald published an editorial last week that was critical of the governor’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis, which prompted a response from Ferré on Twitter.

“No reporter ever wants to be the story, so this is especially exasperating since I — and the entire newsrooms of both the Herald and Times — have been working without stop for weeks to amplify this story and achieve the same goal as Gov. DeSantis,” Klas said, “which is to help keep people safe.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article241591161.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. FFS

[Demovictory9]

6. +1

[uponit7771]

2. America's fighting virus & Republicans, DeSanto is going to get lots of Floridians killed

[rzemanfl]

3. No shit. Emulating the worst of Drumpf. n/t

[Chainfire]

5. He has already killed perhaps thousands of Floridians

Like Trump, he has been a couple of weeks behind the science. As of today many of his victims are still walking around fat and sassy.

[Chainfire]

4. Politicians should know better

then to screw with people who buy ink by the barrel. DeSantis is just another Trump wannabe.

I wonder if he will now get better editorials from the papers?

[bluestarone]

7. Learned this from tRUMP!

They are ALL fucking worthless!!

[gibraltar72]

8. He has been spreading that dirty New Yorkers thing down there for several days.

A friend from Florida has called my wife 3 times in last week Yesterday she said it was dirty New Yorkers that brought it to them.

[stillcool]

10. I've seen that too...

more us vs. them, provided by who knows. Whoever thunk it up did a good job. I lived in South Florida for 5 years, and now I hate every person living in the entire state. I think it's easier to get sucked in, when emotions are already tweaked

[Baitball Blogger]

9. What an idiot

He completely failed Tampa and Miami, so he's blocking their papers.