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Great Moments in Journalism 2006: Great Moment or Greatest Moment?

abalk2 · 12/29/06 03:20PM

Okay, it's the end of the year, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up in 2007, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections. We look forward to sharing another year's worth of Great Moments with you.

Great Moments in Journalism 2006: Assbusters

abalk2 · 12/29/06 08:10AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Welcome to our final look back at the nominees for 2006's Greatest Moment in Journalism. We'll have a poll up later in the day, but before then, let's give one last look at, yes, the guy who got assraped by the ghost. See you after the jump.

Great Moments in Journalism 2006: Commodified Piece of Twat

abalk2 · 12/28/06 03:55PM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Our stroll down memory lane for the year's Greatest Moment reminded us of a few folks we had somehow forgotten. After the jump, we reintroduce you to Gary Miller, the NYU student who thinks that, if you have a vagina and go to clubs, you're a whore.

Great Moments in Journalism 2006: Colored People

abalk2 · 12/27/06 02:45PM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. We're spending the week looking back at some of the year's Greatest Moments. After the jump, say hello (and goodbye) to Damu Smith, a Washington-area activist whose final cause was warning black men to take better care of their health, specifically scheduling examinations for the colorectal cancer that killed him. The Washington Post described him thuly:

Great Moments in Journalism 2006: Writing Is Bad

abalk2 · 12/26/06 03:50PM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Well, the polls have closed, and your winner is Tom, Interchangeable Black Name, and Harry. This week we're going to do something very special here at Gawker; we're going to choose the Greatest Moment in Journalism of the year. We've carefully sifted through each nominee since this feature's inception and picked out the four that seemed to resonate the most with you, the readers. We'll spend the next four days reacquainting you with some old friends, and then, come Friday, we'll select 2006's Greatest Moment. Your first nominee is after the jump.

Great Moments in Journalism: Thanksgiving Has Passed

abalk2 · 12/22/06 04:40PM

Okay, it's the end of the week, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up Monday morning, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections.

Great Moments in Journalism: Jamal and the Night Visitors

abalk2 · 12/21/06 08:10AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Thursgay's got a piece on "up-from-the-ashphalt" styles, which starts off promisingly with this lede: "SCOURING street-wear shops in downtown Manhattan on Saturday, Dimitri Viglis zeroed in on a hoodie he hoped would put some cool in his wardrobe." But it's a couple paragraphs later that we finally arrive at today's Moment:

Great Moments in Journalism: All Fall Down

abalk2 · 12/19/06 08:50AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the BBC's coverage of recent research that shows "[k]icking somebody during a fight can be more dangerous than using a sharp or blunt weapon."

Great Moments in Journalism: Tastes Like Teen Spirit

abalk2 · 12/18/06 08:50AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls have closed and, as expected, your winner was that dude who got assraped by a "malevolent presence." [Brief Update: Dude went to see a priest, who somehow drew out the supposition that what brought on the attack was "my growing awareness of a hardness that's creeping into my attitude towards people less fortunate than me, and how it's appearing in my writing." In which case Gawker editors need to be aware that they will very likely be visited by a herd of violent, mouthfucking yaks.] In any event, today's nominee is after the jump: It's about that high school kid who dumped his jizz into a bucket of Thousand Island. We're really ending the year on a classy note here.

Great Moments In Journalism: Who Are We Kidding, It's Gonna Be The Assraping Ghost

abalk2 · 12/15/06 06:20PM

Okay, it's the end of the week for one lucky Gawker editor, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up from our sad turkey coma, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections.

Great Moments in Journalism: Raped In The Ass By Ghosts

abalk2 · 12/12/06 08:30AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from our neighbor to the north, and concerns the all-too-common problem of ghost rape. Were we author Peter Duffy we would have held out for Modern Love with a topic this amazing, but to each his own. Anyway, here you go:

Great Moments in Journalism: I Want Those Puppies!

abalk2 · 12/11/06 08:20AM

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls have closed, and your winner is the building bukkake piece, which receives no prize because, let's be honest, anything with the word "bukakke" in it is an automatic certainty to be selected. Today's Moment comes from a recent NYT profile of Christ-crazy Broadway baby Kristin Chenoweth. Warning: Contains terrible puppy metaphor.