Rotten News? 2010 P.U.-Litzer Prizes for Bad Journalism

[Joanne98]

FAIR's 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes Recognize the Worst of U.S. Journalism

At the end of every year FAIR rounds up some of the stinkiest examples of corporate media malfeasance. This year brought no shortage of contenders; indeed, the hardest part of the P.U.-litzers is narrowing down the list.

And without further ado...

•Prosecute the Messenger Award: Diane Sawyer (ABC News)

On October 22, ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer introduced a report on WikiLeaks' exposure of thousands of classified documents from the Iraq War. ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz summarized the contents of the WikiLeaks files: "Deadly U.S. helicopter assaults on insurgents trying to surrender.... The Iraqi civilian death toll far higher than the U.S. has acknowledged.... Graphic detail about torture of detainees by the Iraqi military." After Raddatz's report, Sawyer offered this followup: "I know there's a lot of outrage about this again tonight, Martha. But tell me, anything more about prosecuting the WikiLeaks group?"


•New Excuses for Bombing Iran Award: David Broder (Washington Post)

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/30-7

[Submariner]

1. I look forward to Howie Kurtz pounding these lame media stories on "Reliable Sources"

:sarcasm:

[DCKit]

2. Do I have enough time to read this list in 2011?

It took dozens of MSM script-readers a whole year to recite the words of thousands of writers, and I don't know if I have the strength to carry the papers.

Would an IPad explode if I installed this much BS on it? I'm thinking "yes".