Naugle has had a long-running dispute with his constituency's largest regional newspaper, the "South Florida Sun-Sentinel"; he has claimed it should be called "Rainbow Sentinel" because of what he perceives as a majority of gay people on its staff, or "Scum-Sentinel" because they are "an advertising tabloid newsblog". He has stated "the day I take advice from a company that has vagrants selling their products in the middle of the street, we're all in trouble", referring to the publication's practice of employing homeless people as street salespeople.