The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has awarded the first Molly Ivins Award to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
You can read all of the details in this here news release.
Truth be told, I voted for someone else, but I can’t criticize the choice of Olbermann. He’s done some great stuff on MSNBC over the last several years. Congrats to Keith!
This article appears in May 3-9, 2007.
Who got your vote Mr. Boegle?
Not many people can live up to Molly Ivins. She was the one and only columnist I tried to read every week.
Between Ivins and Vonnegut, it’s been a bad couple of months for truth-to-power speakers.
My vote went to John Dougherty, the former Phoenix New Times reporter who — among other things — exposed the awfulness of polygamist Warren Jeffs to the world. Check out his polygamy series here: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/current/polygamy/index.html