The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting
- Best of NQ 2011 Home
- The Tea Party Terrorists Award
- Tying Granny to the Train Tracks Award for Condemning Budget Cuts
- The Obamagasm Award
- Hopeless Dopes Award for Discrediting Obama’s Opponents
- Damn Those Conservatives Award
- The Media Millionaires for Higher Taxes Award
- The Grim Reaper Award for Saying Conservatives Want You to Die
- Occupy My Heart and Soul Award for Left-Wing Protest Promotion
- The Media Hero Award
- Flunk the Founding Fathers Award
- The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble
- MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award
- The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges
- America Is the Real Evil Empire Award
- Refusing to Acknowledge the Obvious Award for Denying Liberal Media Bias
- The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year
- The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
- Quote of the Year
- 2011 NQ Judges
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:
- American Spectator, Quin Hillyer on Spectator.org, December 1: "The Ever-Worse Establishment Media"
- Hot Air, December 19: "And the MRC award for the Quote of the Year goes to…"
- Washington Times, Water Cooler blog by Kerry Picket, December 20: "Krugman wins media watchdog group’s quote of the year"
- NealzNuze blog by Neal Boortz, December 21: "Reading Assignments"
- OneNews.com, December 22: "'May I have the envelope, please?'"
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"
Quote of the Year
Paul Krugman
Quote of the Year runners-up
Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2011 (December 2010 through November 2011).
To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 48 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to eight quotes in each category [List of Judges]. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed alongside each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a “Quote of the Year” denoting the most outrageous quote of 2011.
The MRC’s Michelle Humphrey distributed the ballots and was assisted in their tabulation by Melissa Lopez. Alex Fitzsimmons helped produce the numerous audio and video clips included in the Web-posted version. Rich Noyes and Brent Baker assembled this issue and Brad Ash posted the entire package to the MRC’s Web site.
Go to first award
Featured Award Categories
The Tea Party Terrorists Award |
Tying Granny to the Train Tracks Award for Condemning Budget Cuts |
The Obamagasm Award |
Hopeless Dopes Award for Discrediting Obama’s Opponents |
Damn Those Conservatives Award |
The Media Millionaires for Higher Taxes Award |
The Grim Reaper Award for Saying Conservatives Want You to Die |
Occupy My Heart and Soul Award for Left-Wing Protest Promotion |
The Media Hero Award |
Flunk the Founding Fathers Award |
The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble |
MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award |
The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges |
America Is the Real Evil Empire Award |
Refusing to Acknowledge the Obvious Award for Denying Liberal Media Bias |
The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year |
The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity |
Keep us in the Fight!
The Media Research Center and NewsBusters depend on your support so we can battle the liberal media.Online Picks for Worst Media Bias of 2011
Watch and read even more liberal bias in the MRC's "public ballot." Results were announced on December 16.Download Results
A printable Adobe Acrobat PDF of the "Best of NQ" awards issue is included here for your convenience.Plus, for the all the text in one document, download the MS Word, Open Office Writer or WordPerfect versions.