P.U.-litzer Prizes: The Stinkiest Reporting From the Year

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http://www.alternet.org/media/pu-litzer-prizes-stinkiest-reporting-year


So without further ado, we present the 2014 P.U.-litzers:

-We Are Awesome Award: Andrea Tantaros, Fox News Channel

"The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome. We’ve closed the book on it, and we’ve stopped doing it. And the reason they want to have this discussion is not to show how awesome we are. This administration wants to have this discussion to show us how we’re not awesome."

--Fox host Andrea Tantaros ( 12/9/14), on the release of the Senate investigation of CIA torture.

-Promoting Climate Change Denial Award: CNN



Even as the planet warms, there will still be cold days, but someone forgot to tell CNN's Crossfire ( 1/6/14):"This week's historic cold brings out the skeptics. Will it put the climate change debate in the deep freeze?” Yes, a cold snap compelled the cable news channel to bring viewers a "balanced" debate on the existence of global warming. And that wasn't even their worst coverage of climate for the year: Just a few months later, CNN's OutFront ( 5/21/14) decided it only needed one guest to discuss climate science: far-right pundit Ann Coulter.

-What a Boss! Award: Joe Scarborough

MSNBC wasn't giving viewers much coverage of its parent company Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. But the February 13 edition of Morning Joe was an exception: It brought on both company's CEOs, but it was Comcast chief Brian Roberts who was the focus of attention. Host Joe Scarborough pitched his boss softballs like this: "Comcast seems to be doing everything right over the past four or five years. What’s working for your company that's not working for other companies?" Scarborough later observed, "Even if I weren't working here…I would be saying, 'It's a pretty stunning story about just how successful Comcast is right now.'"

[joeybee12]

1. KNR...people need to be reminded that the Fourth Estate is populated mainly by idiots...nt