Bob Norman writes:
Pissing people off was part of (Jim) DeFede’s job, and he has done it as well as anyone in South Florida for the past 15 years. The Cuban exile community is up there at the top of the list. Plenty of Miami-Dade government officials too. A few advertisers here and there, to be sure.
But they didn’t cause DeFede’s demise. The preponderance of evidence points to another answer: Tony Ridder, chairman and CEO of the Herald’s parent company. A couple of Herald veterans say the leading theory in the newsroom is that Ridder was behind the firing and that Executive Editor Tom Fiedler — who has been humiliated both inside and outside his newsroom in the aftermath of the firing — simply carried out the ghastly order.
Read Norman’s story at here.