What Is This?

In today's media culture, outrage sells, and Florida has become known for its outrageous residents. Stories about meth heads and gun-toting crazies are a financial bonanza for media networks, but they don't give audiences the whole picture. Florida ManKind strives to produce researched, contextualized journalism about Florida that won't make you want to throw your phone at the wall.

Florida as the state America loves to hate doesn't just make Floridians look bad. The cost is much higher than that. Overblown coverage of people behaving badly creates dread, sadness and anger in readers and deepens division. Democracy crumbles when we can't talk to each other, and Florida as ragebait is not only a media-manufactured fiction; it's a how-to guide for the vitriolic partisanship that is eating away at the foundations of our country. Here, we do our best to counteract that.

No advertisers means no incentive to whip up indignation. What you read here may not confirm your bias, but it will be 100% factual, researched, and as spin-free as possible.