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Single Greatest Media Scandal Of The Decade

A true outrage
August 6, 2008

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So there’s a tide of severed human feet washing up on Pacific Northwestern shores, and it only merits a 300-word AP article? Scandal! Outrage! Can we all agree that the media’s top priority should be solving the Mystery Shoe Mystery? Can we at least get Brendan McCarthy on the case?

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Justin Peters is editor-at-large of the Columbia Journalism Review.