Professor Alvarez's School of Journalism  ​Apparently, Mayor
Carlos Alvarez didn't think the budget meeting would pack enough
drama into his day, so he decided to schedule an early-afternoon
news conference yesterday to call out the Miami Herald. You can
watch the nearly hour-long proceedings on CBS4's website.  "I
think we should start taking really more advice from the Herald.
This is an organization that has a virtual monopoly in Miami-
Dade County and is going bankrupt. How can you do that? Poor
leadership. Poor planing. Bad business model. Bad employees. How
can you have a monopoly and be going bankrupt? But we're to
follow their idea of Public Administration 101. OK," Alvarez
quipped.  Why so angry, Alvarez? The mayor contended that
yesterday's front-page story about pay raises handed to police
majors was biased and timed with the budget hearing to whip
people into a frenzy. He also stated that the issue was old
news, because he had given an interview on the matter to Channel
41 four weeks ago. We can't