Best of Notable Quotables 1990 -- Media Research Center

The Best Notable Quotables of 1990:
The Linda Ellerbee Awards
For Distinguished Reporting

The Media Research Center (MRC) asked a group of 26 media observers to choose the winners from quotes provided by the MRC in 20 award categories. First under each award heading is the winner, followed in order by the top runners-up. Notable Quotables thanks the judges for determining the most outrageous and/or humorous utterances from the media over the past year.

List of judges.

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Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award	Media Hero Award/Abroad
Kevin Phillips Tax Fairness Award	Media Hero Award/At Home
Bring Back the Gas Lines Award	Dewey Defeats Truman Award
Damn Those Conservatives Award	The Real Reagan Legacy Award
Paul Ehrlich Ecological Panic Award	Which Way Is It? Domestic Affairs
Good Morning Morons Award	Joe Isuzu Foreign Correspondent Award
Most Honest Confession Award	Gennadi Gerasimov Newspeak Award
Gorbasm Award*	Which Way Is It? Foreign Affairs
Thurgood Marshall Judicial Reporting Award	Award for the Silliest Analysis
Jim Florio Tax Advocacy Award	Nothing To Do With the Media, But We Couldn't Resist
Quote of the Year
1990 Award Judges