

The end result was a dumpster fire of misleading headlines, mangled assertions, and falsely attributed quotes that proliferated across the internet.

In typical fashion, other newspapers, like the Tallahassee Democrat, tried to get in on the action by sloppily copying the work of others. That then triggered the predictable, legacy media pile-on. Their stories relied entirely on leaked, private, and sometimes proprietary emails that focused on The Capitolist’s growth strategy in the already extremely competitive Florida news environment. Earlier this week, the Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel collectively attacked The Capitolist and maligned our work as they typically do with other businesses in the state.
