End of the year lists
One of the beauties and/or redundancies at the end of the year in the media world is lists. Everyone counts their top 10 of everything and remarks what a busy year it was. Every year is busy. These recaps are usually started about mid-December and sometimes miss notable events. For example, funktress Teena Marie died this week -- about four days after most major magazines put out their lists of famous people to die in 2010. That is a bummer for her in more ways than one.
Generally, these lists are space filler for newspapers and magazines and television shows and even blogs to kill some time at the end. Most are stale retreads of stories we all know or really don't care that much about. However, a couple in South Carolina standout this year. The State newspaper did a nice recap of the tumultuous political landscape in South Carolina in the past 12 months. For once, this really was a year that actually will stand out historically when the state's sitting governor was caught in bizarre extramarital affair, the state's voters elected their first female governor and Alvin Greene came from nowhere to snare a U.S. Senate nomination.
In the long run, we think Nikki Haley may be the biggest story even though Greene and Mark Sanford got more press because of the spectacle of their unravelling. She is the first woman elected as governor and also the first minority. Now, some will discredit that because she is a Republican, but bollocks to that. She is the first, and we can all hope she will be the best.
Generally, these lists are space filler for newspapers and magazines and television shows and even blogs to kill some time at the end. Most are stale retreads of stories we all know or really don't care that much about. However, a couple in South Carolina standout this year. The State newspaper did a nice recap of the tumultuous political landscape in South Carolina in the past 12 months. For once, this really was a year that actually will stand out historically when the state's sitting governor was caught in bizarre extramarital affair, the state's voters elected their first female governor and Alvin Greene came from nowhere to snare a U.S. Senate nomination.
In the long run, we think Nikki Haley may be the biggest story even though Greene and Mark Sanford got more press because of the spectacle of their unravelling. She is the first woman elected as governor and also the first minority. Now, some will discredit that because she is a Republican, but bollocks to that. She is the first, and we can all hope she will be the best.
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