It's time once again to begin the celebration of all that isn't DumFux News.
Columbia University's DuPont Awards featured PBS and WGBH-Boston and The Seattle Times and several other joints where they look for stuff that matters and try to tell us what's going on. Pretty much what you'd expect, because in spite of people like me who sit here and bitch about Press Poodles most of the day, it appears there may still be some journalisming going on up in here.
Conspicuous among the winners is Netflix - they put out a feature length documentary about Virunga National Park in Congo and the fight to protect a World Heritage Site from the various assholes who want nothing but power and money.
And of course, conspicuously absent (again) is DumFux News - for the 19th year in a row - which means their record remains unblemished at Oh-fer-19. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nuthin'. For their entire existence, starting in 1996, they just haven't been able to get over the hump on that whole journalism thing at all.
Things could change of course. The year is young and filled with possiblities. But really - what're the odds?
And it's not like there aren't opportunities.
James Beard Foundation (the writer, not the chef)
Anthony Shadid
Polk
Peabody
IWMF (fat chance, Roger)
SPJ
Gannett Foundation
Pulitzer
Pulliam
ASME
Hearst Foundation
(seems like that one oughta be right up Fox's alley seeing as how they share such a rich and proud tradition of war pimping - but anyhoo)
It's a much longer list than that. I only put up the ones I've heard anything about. And when you add in all the regional outfits - eg: Ancil Payne, Keystone Press; plus all the niche subject stuff like Science and Economics and Foreign Policy, etc - it ain't long before you get a list of awards that makes it seem like the pizza party at the end of your kid's 3rd grade soccer season when everybody gets a trophy no matter what.
But there's DumFux News - No trophy. No Certificate of Participation. No Honorable Mention. Just some cardboard franchise pizza that's high on calories and low on actual food. Seems fitting somehow.
I get the feeling they're not really trying.
Columbia University's DuPont Awards featured PBS and WGBH-Boston and The Seattle Times and several other joints where they look for stuff that matters and try to tell us what's going on. Pretty much what you'd expect, because in spite of people like me who sit here and bitch about Press Poodles most of the day, it appears there may still be some journalisming going on up in here.
Conspicuous among the winners is Netflix - they put out a feature length documentary about Virunga National Park in Congo and the fight to protect a World Heritage Site from the various assholes who want nothing but power and money.
And of course, conspicuously absent (again) is DumFux News - for the 19th year in a row - which means their record remains unblemished at Oh-fer-19. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nuthin'. For their entire existence, starting in 1996, they just haven't been able to get over the hump on that whole journalism thing at all.
Things could change of course. The year is young and filled with possiblities. But really - what're the odds?
And it's not like there aren't opportunities.
James Beard Foundation (the writer, not the chef)
Anthony Shadid
Polk
Peabody
IWMF (fat chance, Roger)
SPJ
Gannett Foundation
Pulitzer
Pulliam
ASME
Hearst Foundation
(seems like that one oughta be right up Fox's alley seeing as how they share such a rich and proud tradition of war pimping - but anyhoo)
It's a much longer list than that. I only put up the ones I've heard anything about. And when you add in all the regional outfits - eg: Ancil Payne, Keystone Press; plus all the niche subject stuff like Science and Economics and Foreign Policy, etc - it ain't long before you get a list of awards that makes it seem like the pizza party at the end of your kid's 3rd grade soccer season when everybody gets a trophy no matter what.
But there's DumFux News - No trophy. No Certificate of Participation. No Honorable Mention. Just some cardboard franchise pizza that's high on calories and low on actual food. Seems fitting somehow.
I get the feeling they're not really trying.
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