There is less scandal in Yahoo’s list than juicy info in the Wikileaks saga. Their list:
1. Tribune tales: The award for bombshell media expose of the year goes to The New York Times’ David Carr, who wrote “Tales of a Bankrupt Culture,” an explosive Oct. 5 piece exposing the fratty, sexist and profanity-filled behavior of top executives at the financially bankrupt Tribune Co., which owns The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and a handful of other newspapers and TV and radio properties
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2. Smear campaign?: One of the biggest media stories of the year, without a doubt, has been WikiLeaks’ series of classified document dumps.
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3. Phone hackers of the world: In September, the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story investigating phone hacking charges at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.
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4. Exchanging Vows: They thought it would be a run-of-the-mill New York Times wedding announcement. But it may very well go down as one of the most lambasted Sunday Styles features in the paper’s history.
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5. Caught red handed: In the early days of February, it came to light that The Daily Beast’s investigative reporter, Gerald Posner, had lifted five unattributed sentences from the Miami Herald in a piece about a Florida murder mystery.
Seriously? This is it?
No mention of the biggest media scandal of the past thirty years: Journolist, wherein progressive denizens of mainstream media plotted in email on how to throw coverage to present the progressive agenda in a favorable light. Yahoo must be a non-player in the world of media and critique to have left out this.
No mention of how Marxist and George Soros-funded outfits went fascist in their bid to dictate newsroom procedure and prevent the free speech of a private citizen on the airwaves.
No coverage of how there’s no coverage of Pigford?
No mention of how Keith Olbermann’s brief dismissal brought to the forefront the truth: objective journalism is a myth. He at least had the brass to admit it.
No mention of how the anti-Fox campaign is spearheaded by a Soros-funded activist group masquerading as a journalism review.
There are other omissions from this list; Big Journalism will have its own after the first of the year.
*Right before publication of this post Yahoo posted its “Top Five Political Gaffes of 2010.” All Republicans, not a single Democrat. Another fellation og the administration. Could they try better at pretending to em a legitimate news outfit? They come across as genuine as the Muppets’ news skit on Sesame Street (circa sometime in the 80s).
No mention of Phil “I don’t worry about the Constitution” Hare? Or how his ridiculousness cause him to be unseated by grassroots conservative newcomer and small businessman Bobby Schilling?
No mention of Jerry Brown calling Meg Whitman a “whore” on tape?
No mention of how Melissa Bean brought in muscle to intimidate constituents?
Does anyone even read or use Yahoo to search anymore?