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Peter Arnett Award
(for Hopelessly Foolish Wartime Reporting)
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Runners-up:
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We have been
the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away, that’s
cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say
what you want about it, not cowardly."
— ABC’s Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect, September
17, 2001.
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"We all
know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter
and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word
terrorist....To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the
World Trade Center a terrorist attack."
— Steven Jukes, global head of news for the Reuters News
Service, in an internal memo cited by the Washington Post's
Howard Kurtz in a September 24, 2001, article.
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And
the winner is:
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"The
Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don’t have an
opinion on that and it’s important I not have an opinion on
that as I sit here in my capacity right now....I can say the
Pentagon got hit, I can say this is what their position is, this
is what our position is, but for me to take a position this was
right or wrong, I mean, that’s perhaps for me in my private
life, perhaps it’s for me dealing with my loved ones, perhaps
it’s for my minister at church. But as a journalist I feel
strongly that’s something that I should not be taking a
position on. I’m supposed to figure out what is and what is
not, not what ought to be."
— ABC News President David Westin to students at a Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism event on October 23,
2001, shown four days later on C-SPAN. (After the quote was
publicized, Westin conceded he was wrong.)
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Accepting for David Westin....Robert
Dornan |
 
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