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Winner: Glen Greenwald for continuing the war on torture by highlighting Jonah Goldberg's deeply "conflicted" (and really disgusting) thoughts on war and torture.

SINNERS: The New York Times news desk, for proposing to eliminate dates from datelines. A draft policy now circulating proposes to end one of newspaper's oldest traditions: telling the reader when the reporter filed the story he or she is reading. "We'll still call them datelines, but they will now give only the name of the place, with no date," a Times memo explains. The "significant advantages include doing "away with datelines that are several days old, which can make a story seem stale rather than immediate." Bottom line: another case where less is really less.

Sinner: Tom Friedman, for the worst idea since he campaigned continuously in favor of America's invasion in Iraq. His new thought: Inject some Dick Cheney into Barack Obama.

Winner: John Solomon of the Washington Post, 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen and correspondent Steve Kroft for a blockbuster investigation of a gigantic miscarriage of justice that occurred over four decades. Solomon writes: "Hundreds of defendants sitting in prisons nationwide have been convicted with the help of a forensic tool that was discarded more than two years ago. But the FBI lab has yet to take steps to alert the affected defendants or courts, even as the window for appealing convictions is closing." The science, known as comparative bullet-lead analysis, was first used to analyze the bullets that were supposed to have come out of Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle.


Meet the Press celebrated its 60th anniversary (again) and shattered all previous FCP records: sound bites from 42 white men in a single program! Tim Russert also assumed the carriage and the camera angles of his "I am the Pope, and you are not" posture.

Box Score
Sunday, November 18, 2007

	Meet the Press (NBC–Russert)	Face the Nation (CBS–Schieffer)	This Week (ABC–Stephanopoulos)
White Men	42!!	2	7
White Women	7	2	3
Black Men	3	1	0
Black Women	2	0	1
Gay People	0	0	1*

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Charles Kaiser is the author of The Gay Metropolis and 1968 in America. He has been media editor for Newsweek, a member of the metro staff of the New York Times, and a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the press and book publishing. He has also written for Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, New York, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, Details, Interview, The Advocate, Vogue, and Salon. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton. To find out more, visit charleskaiser.com. Research assistance: Thomas Rogers, Richard Vanderford


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