The PU-litzer Prizes

Posted on December 21, 2005 in Folly Watch Journalists & Pundits

They’re out and just in time for Christmas. Normon Solomon’s PU-litzer Prizes for the stinkiest media performances of 2005. You might have thought that the demogogues never got to win anything respectable (or that maybe they won too many respectable awards). Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting proves the naysayers wrong: there’s a crock of shit at the end of every corporatist hack’s rainbow.

Here’s to lazy reporting and media toadyism:

• FIRST DO SOME HARM” AWARD — Radio reporter Michael Linder
• SELF-PRAISE STEALTH PRIZE — William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer
• PUT THEM IN CHAINS AWARD — Bill O’Reilly
• MICKEY MOUSE JOURNALISM PRIZE — Correspondent Mike Barz and ABC
• OUTSOURCED TO THE PENTAGON AWARD — New York Times reporter Judith Miller
• ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MAN PRIZE — Bob Woodward
• PRIME SLIME NEWS AWARD — Nancy Grace and CNN Headline News

Well done! (And served with Worcestshire Sauce, please.)