It’s just gets better and better from the AP. We’ve now gotten our hands on a copy of the internal email which includes the list of runners-up for the award granted to Solomon’s bamboozling Reid coverage.
A couple examples of the runner-ups …
Seth Hettena in San Diego, for being first to report that murder charges were imminent against seven Pendleton Marines and a Navy corpsman for the April killing of an Iraqi man in Hamandiya.
Hettena’s also done a lot of good Duke coverage. Sure glad he didn’t win.
Also coming up short was …
Margie Mason, Asia Medical Writer, for outgunning the competition on the latest outbreak of bird flu, on Sumatra. When a family on the Indonesian island was decimated by the disease, she tracked down the family’s lone survivor _ a man who was hospitalized and recovering in a nearby city. Mason interviewed him and his mother, who was taking care of him. Their comments revealed an alarming mindset that denied bird flu existed and blamed the Tamiflu drugs for the deaths.
Bird flu? Who cares about bird flu? Surprised this was even a runner-up.
See the whole email here.
