Best of Notable Quotables 1998 -- Media Research Center

The Best Notable Quotables of 1998:
The Eleventh Annual Awards for the
Year’s Worst Reporting

Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 1998.

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 50 talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers generously gave of their time to select their choices for the first, second and third best quote from six to eight quotes in each category. List of Judges. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed in the brackets at the end of the attribution for each quote.

Press Coverage: Columns and editorials about the awards issue quotes. Check out pieces run in the New York Post, Denver Post, The Tampa Tribune and elsewhere.
List of judges.

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Presidential Kneepad Award	Starr Behind Bars Award
Wired Wicked Witch Award	Good Morning Morons Award
Hallucinating Hillary Award	Move Over Buddy Award
Corporal Cueball Carville Cadet Award	Damn Those Conservatives Award
Steve Brill Media Masochism Award	Politics of Meaninglessness Award
Media McCarthyism Award	Carve Clinton into Mt. Rushmore Award
The Everybody But Us Shut Up Award	Too Late For Our Judging, But Year-End "Best of NQ" Worthy
Quote of the Year
1998 Award Judges