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6/30/11

Anvil Award: We have a Winner!

Anvil  for Irony 
The  LC's  Anvil Award  for  Irony has a clear winner today in Chris Hansen, renowned for conducting  Dateline  TV stings against sexual  predators. Hansen is married  but  has been recorded on hidden cameras  with a   blonde former TV reporter who is 20 years his junior. London's Daily Mail has more here .
Notice, too, how  the LC's prediction  that British-based, but US-focused, news sites would rapidly  muscle their way  into the  US  market, is becoming more evident  by the day. British tabloids understand  what most people  really want --  news and comment  that take  a strong, populist viewpoint,  plus gossipy entertainment -- and they give it to them.