BOTTOM TEN….LA Times media critic David Shaw ? best known for insanely long, multi-part stories that appear in the paper about two or three times a year ? has his “10 worst moments in American journalism” list up today. What’s frightening about it is that after a year of blogging I’ve already heard of all of them. Sheesh.

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