As Josh points out at TPM, the AP thought that John Solomon’s reporting on Harry Reid was just swell. In the internal email sent out to AP staff announcing Solomon’s award, this section jumped out at me:
The story and video won widespread play on the Web fronts and newspaper fronts, and stirred an enormous debate in the blogosphere, generating more than 10,000 postings and more than a dozen newspapers wrote editorials chastising Reid, including USA Today.
Hmm. Yes, that “enormous debate” in the blogosphere. As the author of eight of those 10,000 posts, I confess I’m surprised that it doesn’t matter to editors at the AP that the debate was over the AP’s reporting.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, apparently.