NEW JOURNALISM AWARD

The brilliant economist, Dr. Thomas Sowell has created a new journalism award: 

 

 Events of this past year have shown the need for a special award in journalism for those who think that the purpose of reporting news is to cause the public to adopt the political views of those who do the reporting. Therefore this column announces the first annual Joseph Goebbels award for that journalist who best exemplifies the spirit and the practice that Dr. Goebbels pioneered.

 For people too young to remember or too unschooled in history to know, Dr. Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda in the Nazi regime back in the 1930s and 1940s. Facts never distracted him from his mission nor did a lack of facts inhibit his zeal.

 Had there been such an award in 2003, "Baghdad Bob" would have been the clear winner for his repeated bold assurances that American troops were nowhere near Baghdad and never would be. That man could have had a great career in advertising. Holding the same official position as Dr. Goebbels, Baghdad Bob would have been the perfect first winner of this award. But such are the lost opportunities of history.

I won't tell you who won this year, you'll have to read Dr. Sowell's column to find out.   Even with so many highly qualified candidates in the American news media, I'll bet you already have a good idea.  You can find out here:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20041224.shtml