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Scoop: Columbia Journalism School Inaugurates ‘Miss Leading Headlines Beauty Pageant’

JL;DR SUMMARY Columbia Journalism School has launched a satirical event called the "Miss Leading Headlines Beauty Pageant" under pressure from the White House, showcasing absurd and erroneous media coverage of Israel and the Mideast. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Middle EastFake NewsMedia CoverageSatirePresident TrumpHeadlinesCorrectionsColumbia Journalism SchoolPageant

Places mentioned

Pennsylvania, United States
"Prize goes to Reuters for an interview with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), which contained a quote that caused a stir in what appeared to be a change of heart for the popular Jewish governor."
New York, United States
"Prize goes to The New York Times for this frontpage headline that shocked the world and caused the Dow Jones to hit an all-time high and President Trump to declare himself the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize."
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
"Columbia, a leading institution within what President Trump calls the Poison Ivy League, reluctantly has initiated a project."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The Guardian for a frontpage story based on one of its reporters in Jerusalem overhearing the Israeli prime minister at home telling his extended family, lets eat children."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Special Prize for Longest First Sentence of a Profile of the Israeli Prime Minister a category in itself, with dozens of entries goes to The New Yorker for this opening of a 12,322-word piece that begins: On a mostly chilly evening, with the temperature hovering in the mid-forties, with moderate winds and no hint of rain (though it had been predicted), on October the twenty-first, nineteen forty nine, at approximately eleven fifteen pee em, in the city of Tel Aviv, in the young state of Israel (founded in nineteen forty eight), formerly Palestine, a male child, Benjamin, was born."

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