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Thursday, December 16, 2004

The worst of the media, 2004

The Media Research Center's Seventeenth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting are up.

So is Accuracy in Media's list of the most underreported/buried stories of 2004.

(Via TownHall.com.)

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