It's official. The voters have decided. The 2002 Media Whore of the Year Award goes to Bob Woodward. Why? Read Eric Alterman.

Contrasts were drawn between the intrepid, power-challenging, authority-questioning Watergate investigative reporter of the 1970's, and the obscenely slavish, weasely celebrity-reporter of the New Millennium, who relies on bizarre and dishonest devices (inventing facts) to achieve the outcomes his powerful patrons desire. For this year's voters, the extreme and tragic transformation of Bob "Woody" Woodward - and his decadent journey from "All the President's Men" to "Ten Days in September" - represents a poignant microcosm of the national mainstream media's deterioration over the last thirty years.

Runner up was NBC's Tim Russert.

[link via Cursor , just about the top daily news source around.]