The Best Notable Quotables of 2007 A panel of 53 leading media observers has selected the winners of MRC's Best Notable Quotables of 2007: The Twentieth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting. Categories include "Madness of King George Award for Bush Bashing," Blue State Brigade Award for Campaign Reporting,"
"Media Millionaires for Higher Taxes Award’,"and the ever-popular "Good Morning Morons Award."The McClatchy News Service picked up the dubious distinction of winning "Quote of the Year" for an October headline that seemed a parody of the media’s incessant pessimism on Iraq: "As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch." For a complete rundown of this year’s winners, as well as audio and video clips of the broadcast quotes, see here
Below are some examples from the "Good Morning Morons Award".
So I’m running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can’t, I can’t figure this out.”— Co-host Meredith Vieira talking about global warming on NBC’s Today, January 8. [57 points]]
Co-host Matt Lauer: “The book is called The World Without Us, and it asks the question what would happen to planet Earth if human beings were to suddenly disappear....And really it’s all about trying to figure out how long it would take nature to reclaim what we’ve created.”Co-host Meredith Vieira: “The mess.”Lauer: “How long it would take nature to fix the mess we’ve made?...Would the Earth miss us at all? How long would it take for it to fix the problems we created?”— NBC’s Today, September 4.
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