The Media Research Center announced the winners of their "Fifteenth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting" Here are a few of my favorites:

And the winner of the Media Hero Award is... Barbara Wawa.
"For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent." -- Barbara Walters narrating her interview with Fidel Castro on ABC's 20/20, October 11.

And the "Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Pontificating" goes to... Jessica Lange.
"I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everything they stand for....To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership....And I think this latest thing with Iraq is absolute madness and I'm stunned that there is not opposition on a much more global scale to what he's talking about....There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, it's immoral and basically illegal....It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating." -- Actress Jessica Lange at a September 25 press conference at an international film festival in San Sebastian, Spain where she was given a lifetime achievement award. Her remarks were shown in the U.S. on the syndicated show Inside Edition on October 4.

The "Good Morning Morons Award" goes to Paula Zahn.
"Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to decide whether Hussein stays in office." -- Preview of an October 14 segment on CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn posted on CNN's Web site.

Runner up for the "See No Liberal Media Bias Award", Deborah Potter.
"I have yet to see a body of evidence that suggests the reporting that gets on the air reflects any political bias." -- Former CBS and CNN correspondent Deborah Potter, who is currently the Executive Director of NewsLab, when asked for a comment on her former colleague Bernard Goldberg's new book Bias by the Boston Globe's Mark Jurkowitz for a January 17 article. Potter had not read the book.