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In 6 VED 4, in an article about media criticism of Child Protective Services (CPS), we speculated, “Currently, despite facing very similar challenges as CPS does, articles criticizing APS are still relatively rare. We cannot expect this grace period to continue.” As if to prove us correct, extensive critiques of the nation’s third largest adult protective services system — Florida’s —were published in two of that state’s newspapers during early September 2003. Florida Today assigned at least three reporters and spent seven months looking into the state’s system, and ran six articles and an editorial. The Pensacola News Journal, a sister Gannett Company paper, ran four articles written by the lead Florida Today reporter, Alisa LaPolt. This article analyzes that coverage.

Keywords: Department of Children and Families; “Florida sells itself as a retirement paradise, but the elderly are too often abused or neglected”

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