-Caveat Lector- BOB WOODWARD Media Whore of the Year 2002 http://www.mediawhoresonline.net/woty02win.htm
The race for MWO Whore of the Year 2002 had everything seasoned WotY aficionados could hope for - suspense, drama, intrigue, and a few unexpected twists and turns. Two veteran powerhouses, Tim Russert of NBC Champion Shills and Bob "Woody" Woodward of prestigious Washington Post Toady Farms emerged early to lead the pack throughout. But there were some surprises. Owing to a particularly grueling training regimen just prior to the race, including identifying the Wellstone Memorial as her "Outrage of the Year" on CNN's Capitol Gang, rookie and false favorite Margaret Carlson surged early on in the contest and finished with an impressive show, close on the heels of her more experienced rivals. Republican Pollster Frank Luntz, one of the hack world's rising stars, finished fourth. Influence and prominence were not strong suits for Luntz, but his well-known, nauseating compulsion to suck up to Bush, combined with a consistent failure to hide his GOP credentials from audiences, earned him the favor of countless voters. In what might have been one of the more surprising aspects of this year's race, Chris "Tweety" Matthews and a disappointed and humiliated Whore of the Year 2001, Howard Fineman, ran fifth and six, respectively. It is unclear whether spectators believed these two had improved since last year, or simply that their uber-whore status now goes unquestioned, rendering additional recognition superfluous. Mickey Kaus finished seventh. His strengths of unrivaled predictability and banality were not enough to overcome doubts about his relevance. Still, not a bad showing for a blogger. Dark Horse Ron Rosenbaum stunned the crowd as he was strong out of the gate and running first early in the race. Alas, he lost momentum in the final lap to finish eighth. All in all, a better than expected performance for this newcomer most pros agree will be one to watch in '03. Sentimental favorite Dick Morris ran ninth, after first predicting he would not qualify, and then predicting an easy win for himself. A well-turned-out Pop Historian Michael Beschloss finished last in the field. While he qualified because of his eagerness to squander an academic reputation for face time, and diminish all historians by acting as any other garden variety dime-store media whore, his relative obscurity dashed his hopes for a better showing this year. In an interesting footnote to the race reminiscent of the 1972 Olympic marathon, a sleek but lame Howard "Me Too" Kurtz entered the field out of nowhere at the home turn to cross the finish line before the winners. (Kurtz's failure to qualify surprised many and boosters launched a last minute write-in campaign). In the end, the contest came down a fierce and contentious fight to the finish between Russert and Woodward, both of whom had earned high marks throughout the year for the consistency, intensity, and dishonesty of their bias and overt willingness to sacrifice their journalistic integrity at the altars of exposure and corporate bosses. Both were credited with steady, precipitous falls from respectability over time, and this common factor more than any other determined their strong finishes. Russert's deterioration was seen as significantly more rapid and steep than Woody's. But in the end, it was Woody's longer-term decline, marked by stark and symbolic differences between where he started and where he ended up, that would carry him to a triumphant victory. Contrasts were drawn between the power-challenging, authority-questioning Watergate investigative reporter of the 1970's, and the obscenely slavish celebrity-reporter of the New Millennium, who employs bizarre and dishonest devices in his writing to achieve the outcomes his powerful patrons desire. For this year's voters, the extreme and tragic transformation of Bob "Woody" Woodward - and his decadent journey from "All the President's Men" to "Ten Days in September" - represented a poignant microcosm of the national mainstream media's deterioration over the last thirty years. So take a walk around the winner's circle, Bob Woodward. You're the new MWO Media Whore of the Year - 2002! A<:>E<:>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. 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