I think that answers itself, oxymoronically.

Regards, C

The George Polk Awards are kind of like the Golden Globes of American journalism . Not as well known as those Oscars of the news business, the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Awards are nevertheless probably a close second in terms of prestige.

Just like the Oscars, the George Polk awards are basically another form of liberal self-congratulation. Other Polk "award" winners: Sy Hersh, Frank Rich, the New Orleans Times-Picayune for its Bush-bashing "coverage" of Katrina, Communist publisher Victor Navasky, Bill Moyers, blah blah blah.

If you make a list of prominent liberal journalists, it would read like a list of Polk award winners.

Great Conservative journalists like Bill O'reily, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs have been systematically excluded from the awards.

Marshall has assembled a full-time staff dedicated to investigating and breaking news.

Sort of like what newspapers used to do. I think back in the day it was called journalism.

What does it say if the U.S. Attorney firings got an award, and LGF didn't get one for bringing "The Eye"/Dan Rather down?

A fair point, although credit was much more diffuse in the latter case. Powerline was actually considered the major contributor in that one and, more to the point, Fox and others gave it mainstream media attention THAT DAY and took over the process.

Contrariwise, Marshall and company took separate reporting from many local reporters and built a story out of it, keeping it alive for weeks and making something major out of it before the MSM took note.