The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting

Media Coverage

In addition to discussions on numerous talk radio shows where hosts cited quotes or interviewed MRC representatives, the Best of NQ Awards issue has been highlighted by these outlets:

Television:

FNC's Hannity. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the award-winning quotes with guest host Mark Steyn on the Fox News Channel on Thursday, December 22. Video

Online:

Print:

Washington Times, "Inside the Beltway" by Jennifer Harper, December 19: "Krugman's Moment"

Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen, December 22: "Liberal media wisdom in 2011"

Investor's Business Daily, Creators syndicate column by Brent Bozell, December 22: "2011 Could Be Called the Year of Krugman Thuggishness"

World magazine, column by Marvin Olasky, December 31: "More mush: Judging the worst journalism of 2011"

Waterbury (CT) Republican American, January 1, 2012 editorial: "Chronicles of Bias XXIV"

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Creators syndicate column by Brent Bozell, January 1, 2012: "A look back at Big Media's mayhem"

Damn Those Conservatives Award

Winner

Mike Malloy (63 points)

“So when does SEAL Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden. Wasn’t he, or am I wrong here?”

— Left-wing radio host and former CNN producer Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, May 2. [MP3 Audio]

Runners-up

Ed Schultz (54 points)

“President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, but you know what they’re talking about? Like this right-wing slut, what’s her name, Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over.”

— Ed Schultz on his radio program, May 24. The next night, Schultz appeared on his 10pm ET MSNBC show to apologize: “I used vile and inappropriate language when talking about talk show host Laura Ingraham. I am deeply sorry, and I apologize.” [MP3 Audio]

Jon Meacham (45 points)

“Basically we have a President [Ronald Reagan] who treated the poor poorly, did not tend to the sick, broke laws, committed nearly impeachable offenses by your own reporting. Why should we be lionizing him in the broad public domain? You certainly don’t.”

— Ex-Newsweek editor Jon Meacham hosting PBS’s Need to Know, February 4, talking to filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, whose HBO documentary Reagan debuted February 7. [MP3 Audio]

Cenk Uygur (33 points)

“The House began debating a spending bill today that cuts $833 million from the WIC nutrition program, which provides healthy food to low-income women and their children....Now what was it that Jesus said? ‘Give me your poor and needy, and I’ll go tell them to pound sand.’ That’s at least the Republican vision of Jesus.”

— Anchor Cenk Uygur during the 6pm ET hour of MSNBC News Live, June 14. [MP3 Audio]

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