How Did The Paper Miss Two Big Stories Over The Past Two Days?
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — We know that legacy media is in trouble, but we are constantly amazed at just how much trouble the Sun Sentinel seems to be in. Over the past 48 hours, the Sun Sentinel missed two major stories — then played catch-up to try make it seem like it was on top of the stories all along.
The first was a major story for our readers who live in Deerfield Beach. As we reported at 9 a.m. on SATURDAY, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was investigating a horrific crime. A man allegedly stabbed a woman in the neck. When cops found the suspect, they also found a teenage girl in his car who had also been stabbed. The Sun Sentinel sent that out as a “news alert” on SUNDAY — more than 24 hours after BocaNewsNow.com first reported the crime.
The second major story that the Sun Sentinel apparently slept through is the arrest of a Lake Worth man for allegedly stealing an encryption key from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office told BocaNewsNow.com about the arrest early Sunday morning. We published our story around 9:30 a.m. The Sun Sentinel, however, didn’t get around to issuing an alert for the story until Sunday afternoon. Hours and hours after we filed our report.
We know it’s tough to be a dinosaur. We fully appreciate that when you’re catering to an audience that cleans off newsprint from its fingers while listening to the static of an AM radio from Radio Shack, your standards for “breaking news” are a little different. We get that your audience is excited about a “Golden Girls” show — so much that you issued a “news alert” about that a few weeks ago, but managed to miss a double stabbing in Deerfield. We know you’re old and tired. But age should be just a number. We’d love it if Tribune could drink some vitamin C and energize its staff, or just sell us the whole operation for $1. We’ll fix it by turning it into a lean news machine.
Let’s be clear: we’re not perfect. We miss stories. But we’re a tiny operation with a huge audience compared to the Sun Sentinel’s huge operation with an increasingly tiny audience. It seems we’re doing something right. It seems the Sun Sentinel is in trouble. The question: how much trouble is the Sun Sentinel in?
