The Award for Nonexcellence in Climate Journalism Goes To ...

[StarfarerBill]

By Dr. Joseph Romm, Climate Progress

"Okay, I think it’s pretty obvious to regular Climate Progress readers who the winner is. Indeed, I was originally going to ask readers to vote on the winner from the top 10 list below — but it’d be like asking readers to vote for which major sports figure fell from grace farthest this year. As always, though, I welcome your thoughts on the “winners” and any omissions.

"I do a lot of media criticism, so I thought I would end the year with an award for the major media outlet and/or reporter who has moved furthest from journalistic excellence. Next year I might name the award after this year’s winner, but for now, it’ll be named after Citizen Kane’s “Declaration of Principles,” which publisher Charles Foster Kane idealistically enunciated early on in the film classic, but later on “Without reading it, Kane tears it up, throws it into the wastebasket at his side.” And no, I’m not including any of the “new media” in the list because none of them has even one-tenth the impact of any of the major media outlets on this list nor do most of them claim to be journalists."

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144784/the_award_for_nonexcellance_in_climate_journalism_goes_to_...

[Zoeisright]

1. Excellent list.

I think those 10 get nonexcellent awards in journalism, period.