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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Announcing The P.U.-litzer Prizes For 2001 By Norman Solomon The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established a decade ago to give recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year. As each winter arrives, I confer with Jeff Cohen of the media watch group FAIR to sift through the large volume of entries. This year, the competition was especially fierce. We regret that only a few journalists can win a P.U.-litzer. And now, the tenth annual P.U.-litzer Prizes, for the foulest media performances of 2001: "LOVE A MAN IN A UNIFORM" AWARD -- Cokie Roberts of ABC News "This Week" On David Letterman's show in October, Roberts gushed: "I am, I will just confess to you, a total sucker for the guys who stand up with all the ribbons on and stuff, and they say it's true and I'm ready to believe it. We had General Shelton on the show the last day he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I couldn't lift that jacket with all the ribbons and medals. And so when they say stuff, I tend to believe it." PROTECTING VIEWERS FROM THE NEWS PRIZE -- CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan," said Isaacson, in a memo ordering his staff to accompany any images of Afghan civilian suffering with rhetoric that U.S. bombing is retaliation for the Taliban harboring terrorists. As if the American public may be too feeble-minded to remember Sept. 11, the CNN chief explained: "You want to make sure that when they see civilian suffering there, it's in the context of a terrorist attack that caused enormous suffering in the United States." PROTECTING READERS FROM THE NEWS PRIZE -- Panama City News Herald To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2163 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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