I found this absolutely fascinating. Two awarding bodies, and both provided brilliant counterpoints to each other. First is something called as Honest Reporting. Here are its nominees.
- Worst News Director: Larry Register, formerly of Al-Hurra TV
- Worst Use of Taxpayer Money (UK): BBC
- Most Ridiculous Campus Article: Linda Quiquivix, The Daily Tar Heel
- Most Curious Caption: Associated Press
- Stupidest Unstifled Debate: The Doha Debates
- Worst Advertising Account: International Herald-Tribune
- Special Achievement in Verbal Gymnastics: Jeremy Bowen
- Most Blatant Photo-Opportunism: Ismail Haniyeh
- Dumbest Reaction to Alan Johnston’s Kidnapping: National Union of Journalists
- Worst Film Editor: Charles Enderlin
- Worst Moral Equivalence: Ed O'Loughlin
- Worst Pundit: Abd Al-Bari Atwan
- Best New Members of the Pro-Israel Cabal: Walt and Mearsheimer
- Worst Cartoon: Jonathan Shapiro a.k.a. Zapiro
- The Blog Post We Should've Taken Seriously: Fadi Abu Sada
- Dishonest Reporter of the Year Christiane Amanpour
Second comes from Common Dreams. The nominees are:
- SPINNING FOR ANOTHER WAR AWARD — Michael Gordon of The New York Times
- “SOMETHING ABOUT A RETRO MACHO MAN” AWARD — Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball”
- “AMERICANS DON’T WANT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE” AWARD — Jeff Greenfield of CBS, et al.
- “3-H CLUB” PRIZE — Too Many to Name
- RISKY DEMOCRATS AWARD — L.A. Times, Washington Post
- SPINNING HAWKS INTO DOVES AWARD — ABC, CNN, Fox, CBS and others
- PUTTING CLOTHES ON THE EMPEROR PRIZE — New York Times
- “IT’S TRUE BECAUSE WE SAID IT” AWARD — CNN’s Lou Dobbs
- THE LOU DOBBS US-vs.-THEM AWARD — Bill O’Reilly of Fox News
- “WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLFOWITZ” AWARD — Newsweek
Quite an interesting way to look at journalism, no? to find out who they poke and prod. Looking at these two lists, looks like they are doing well all over the place. But I loved the BBC editing piece on Verbal Gymnastics specially, lol.
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