30 Media Heroes
Having some fun with the Salon Hack 30 List, Greg Mitchell over at The Nation challenged his readers to create the 30 Media Heroes list. They spent a few days nominating and voting via comments at The Nation and via twitter and take a look at the Top 10:
1. Rachel Maddow (MSNBC)
2. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!)
3. Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
4. Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone and more)
5. Bill Moyers (formerly PBS)
6. Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)
7. Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)
8. Jeremy Scahill (The Nation)
9. Paul Krugman (New York Times)
10. Stephen Colbert (Colbert Report)
I’m not familiar with the work of everyone on this list (never heard of Allison Kilkenny-Jamie Kilstein before). But of the people in the honorable mention list, I would like to see Josh Marshall and Ezra Klein in the top 30.
Who is missing from this list and why?
Even better, who would you put on a Delaware Media Hero list?
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The silence is deafening.
Are there no media heroes in Delaware? (I have no nominations.)
Alternate questions:
Who was the last media hero in Delaware?
Who are our leading media villains?
I’ll bite.
Here are 30 reporters, based on reporting only.
Curtis Wilkie, Vernon Loeb, Jay Harris, David Hoffman.
Ralph Moyed, Bill Frank, Merritt Wallick, Jim Miller, Bruce Pringle, Bill Boyle, Herb Pinder, Jeff Montgomery, Norm Lockman, Robin Brown, Bill Giese, Celia Cohen, Rita Katz Farrell, Randall Chase, Maureen Milford.
Al Cartwright, Kevin Tresolini, Myra Precourt, Jack Chevalier, Paul Smith.
Gary Mullinax, Eileen Spraker, Gary Soulsman, Rolf Rykken.
Fred Comegys, Pat Crowe.
Subsequent careers as editors or purveyors of opinion not considered.
You’ve got a comprehensive list here — good to see many names that younger DeLib readers might have never known.
I’ll put Wilkie, Harris and Moyed at the top of the list. In his prime, Bill Frank knew just about everything about just about everybody. Lockman and Hoffman started here, but did their best work outside of Delaware. I wish Boyle had stayed longer and that Pinder and Wallick had resisted the temptation to become editors.
Comegys and Crowe would have been top photographers at any newspaper in the country.
Your list is thorough but you’ve missed one who definitely belongs: Beth Miller.
And, if you go back into the ’70s, you’d want to include Richard Sandza and John Felton.
but
Beth is wonderful, in print and in person, and the list should include Pulitzer photogs Kevin Fleming of Dover and Keith Meyers of Brookside.
You have to put Allan Loudell on the list. While he sometimes falls for the right-wing framing on things, his interviews are often way above the heads of the people that just stopped listening to Rick Jensen.
I wonder if we don’t also include Nancy Karibjellybean. Doing TV news in Delaware has to be one of the most awkward jobs in journalism.
I got to spend an hour or so picking the brain of Rita Farrell (and having my brain picked) a few weeks ago. She definitely makes my Delaware list.
Finally, I will nominate local blogger Tom Noyes. Tom is the go to guy on a host of public policy stories that crop up. His insight into the inner workings and the economics of these policies usually gets my wonk juices flowing.
Loudell definitely belongs. Every day he reminds us that there’s a real world out there beyond our borders.