The Bully Pulpit: And the winners are ... with update

You know you're going to see them, sprouting like Eureka Reporters in the yards of Humboldt County media outlets over the next two weeks — the obligatory year-end lists. Every print media organization on the North Coast will be concocting its lists for the top stories of 2007.

But what do you think? What were the top stories of 2007? Give me your list and I'll try to get a few printed in the paper.

Some seem obvious, but others less so.

Neely eking out a victory against über-challenger Nancy Flemming? Maybe, maybe not. Bill the Chimp succumbs to old age ... probably. I mean, if it had been Bill matched up against Neely, we'd have had a new 4th District supervisor. (Where's the law stand on non-human candidates, anyway?)

Update: Alright, alright — as Hank Sims so unceremoniously points out, the Flemming/Neely race was 2006 ... but I couldn't waste the Chimp for Supervisor comparison, now could I? And everyone, bow down before the North Coast Journal for being the FIRST NEWSPAPER IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY HISTORY to do the year's top stories edition.

Wasn't that the point alluded to at top, Hank? Obligatory, get it? That's spelled U-N-O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L, not S-C-O-O-P.

Update No. 2: And notice, if you will, how the NC Journal barely mentions the indictments of Zanotti and Douglas in their list (cough: What were you smoking, Hank?) They actually give the "trail uprising" precedence over the only indictment of commanding officers EVER.

Comments

Great idea, James! What made you think of it?

Neely eeking out a victory against über-challenger Nancy Flemming? Maybe, maybe not.

Maybe not, since that was 2006!

And it's spelled "eking"!

Posted by: Hank Sims | December 19, 2007 02:01 PM

Believe it or not, Hank, yours isn't the only newsroom working on such an annual list. If you pulled your head out the New Yorker once in a while you'd see that they've come out in all the newspapers every year for about — I don't know — the past 100 years!! But go ahead, take credit for annually recycled ideas. BTW, man, where's the love?

Posted by: James Faulk | December 19, 2007 02:47 PM

Love ya, baby!

Posted by: Hank Sims | December 19, 2007 03:27 PM

Top story of 2007:

Jumbo scoops the North Coast Journal's YouTube domain from right underneath them.

Posted by: mresquan | December 19, 2007 07:27 PM

Boys! Play nice. It's the season of joy, love, peace, etc.
s/
George Bailey.

Posted by: Gregg | December 19, 2007 08:27 PM

I normally think that you are hilarious and well spoken, your little bit about "the woman who looked like she'd been slobbering on the end of a meth pipe for over a decade"
was kinda mean.

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