MainStreamMedia don't just get stories wrong, they get them spectacularly wrong. Historically, there was never any real accountability. That's why Walter Duranty, for example, was able to keep his blood-soaked Pulitzer.

Luckily, technology and the blogosphere are forcing greater accountability on media generally, and 2005 served as a great example: from poison popcorn to french fry fright to toothpaste terror to wrong sex babies, the media served up a grand pile of garbage...