Five for Five: NewsBusters Highlights and Contest Winners

Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post.

As we approach our 5th anniversary at NewsBusters, our celebration would not be complete without a recap of our best posts. It was a tough call, but we came up with the top 25, broken down evenly into five categories of five each.

We call it our Five-for-Five.

Each Friday through August 13 we'll publish a Five-for-Five list.We've saved the very best for last: On Monday, August 16, we'll publish the Top Five Outrageous Outbursts.

But we start today with a much lighter note. The first category for Five-for-Five is The Top Five Media Flubs Caught by NewsBusters. (Also check out a short video-cast with NewsBusters bloggers talking about how they caught the flubs.)

In no particular order we remember...:

• ...how CNN's Kyra Phillips was the original Gossip Girl ["Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech" August 29, 2006]

• ...why dogs are NOT a liberal journalist's best friend ["Dog Urinates on Katie Couric Ice Scultpture" from December 9, 2005]
• ...how geography clearly wasn't Ann Curry's best subject in school ["NBC's Ann Curry Can't Find Illinois on Map" from February 4, 2008]
• ...how typos can be really inconvenient in the age of Osama Obama ["Oops! During Segment on Bin Laden, CNN Graphic Asks 'Where's Obama?' from January 2, 2007]

...and last but not least, how, if the whole broadcast journalism thing doesn't work for her, NBC's Michelle Kosinski could easily become a shallow-water canoeing instructor ["Up a Creek: Accusing Bush of Video Stunt, 'Today' Gets Caught in Stunt of Its Own" from October 14, 2005].

That video is so priceless, we've included it below:

 

 

And now, as promised, our first-round winners in our 5th anniversary T-shirt giveaway.

Congratulations to:

• Marc M. of Blackwood, N.J.
• Bruce B. of Manchester, Conn.
• Jose D. of Chula Vista, Calif.
• Jon S. of Kirkwood, Mo.
• Paul C. of Saint Ann, Mo.
• Robert S. of Greensboro, Md.
• Joe C. of Jamestown, Ky.
• Marcia R. of Howe, Okla.
• Sharon H. of Metairie, La.
• Stephanie W. of Pittsburg, Kan.
• Kossi D. of Stockbridge, Ga.
• Lois V. of Floyd, Va.
• David K. of Carmel, N.Y.
• George S. of Roseburg, Ore.
• Barbara N. of Warminster, Pa.
• Ronald S. of South Branch, Mich.
• Pam T. of Capristrano Beach, Calif. 
• Timm B. of South Elgin, Ill.
• Stuart S. of Decatur, Ga.
• Barbara B. of Florissant, Mo.
• Sharen C. of Philadelphia, Pa.
• Robert P. of Glenn Heights, Texas
• Kathy B. of Lometa, Texas
• Bobby F. of Warner Robins, Ga.
• Gary B. of Auburn, Ind.

We'll announce the winners of round two on next Friday. Click here to sign up for the T-shirt giveaway contest if you haven't already.