Mr. Wonderful's Quote Du Jour Award Selection Committee had a very difficult time in preparing for tonight's presentation. One committee member was late getting home from church, another had driven down to the Coast where he was resting up at the Beau Rivage following a full weekend on campus updating next week's lectures, and another wouldn't answer the phone because she was still smarting over the fact that only one of her selections was named as a Du Jour recipient during the past week. The Commitee finally got its act together, however, and enthusiastically presents today's award to . . . the Clemson Tiger, Robert Campbell, for this posting inspired from Paul Weaver's book News and the Culture of Lying:

"Pretending that both sides in a controversy must be partly right is a key practice in Pulitzerian journalism, the pseudo-objective approach that most American newspapers have used for the past century.  See Paul Weaver's book, News and the Culture of Lying."

Congratulations Dr. Campbell!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Mr. Wonderful and the Selection Committee have decided to award the prestigious Mr. Wonderful's Quote Du Jour Award on a weekly, rather than a daily basis.The Committee's rationale is that there will be more quotes to choose among, the competition will therefore be even stiffer, and the Award will therefore be even more prestigious that is currently the case. Besides, as the spouse of one of the Committee members confided to Mr. Wonderful, the real rationale is: The Commitee members are spending so much time on their computer, screening the postings and searching for the daily Du Jour winner, that others in their family can't get on the computer until well after 2:00 AM each morning. The Committee looks forward to announcing its weekly winner one week from today: The 4th of July!