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The Media Research Center's 16th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting, featuring such categories as:

Damn Those Conservatives Award
Baghdad Bob Award for Parroting Enemy Propaganda
Dominique de Villepin Snottiness Award for Whining About the War
The Invisible Liberal Award for Camouflaging Ideology
Media Suck Up Award
Pompous Peter Award for Jennings' Arrogant Condescension

and many more.

Here's a sample, a runner-up from the What Liberal Media? category:

“Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological, and that strives to be independent of undue commercial or governmental influence....“It is that legacy we must protect with our diligent stewardship. To do so means we must be aware of the energetic effort that is now underway to convince our readers that we are ideologues. It is an exercise of, in disinformation, of alarming proportions, this attempt to convince the audience of the world’s most ideology-free newspapers that they’re being subjected to agenda-driven news reflecting a liberal bias. I don’t believe our viewers and readers will be, in the long-run, misled by those who advocate biased journalism.”

– Then-New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accepting the “George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award” at a National Press Foundation dinner shown live on C-SPAN2, February 20.

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