Posted on 03/08/2004 8:26:59 AM PST by WaterDragon
The Inadvertently Correct award goes to KOIN (CBS) affiliate’s Dave Erickson for noticing that footage of a Guernsey with mad cow disease was not the correct graphic to accompany a story about Potland, that is Portland, Mayor Vera “Darth Vader” Katz.
Erickson’s award plaque, which is a bathroom tile bas relief of Walter Cronkite frowning at Rudy Giuliani for restricting the rights of muggers in Central Park, will have crossed silver oscilloscope probes....(Snip)
The Radio Logic award for 2003 goes to the unnamed local newscaster who pointed out that Oregon’s high unemployment rate was due to a lack of jobs.
Her name is being withheld in compliance with the recently enacted statute, ORS 1313, which makes it a felony to point out that a member of Oregon’s Mainstream Media has said something really stupid on the air....(Snip)
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