And The Winner Of The Turkey Award Goes To . . .

November 23rd, 2006 Davis Posted in Media |

Picking out the winner of the first annual Turkey award wasn’t an easy task. Over the last 12 months we’ve seen quite a few scandals stir up the blogosphere into a full fledge gobblefest and narrowing it down to just one incident seemed like an impossible task with so many memorable gaffes.

There was Kramer’s bizzare and angry rant against a heckler, Ex-Senator George Allen’s use of a racially charged term to help him lose a tight election. There was even the Cartoon network’s attorneys who issued a cease and desist against their own marketing department after they uploaded viral clips to YouTube.

While all of these would have made for good Turkey awards, none of the them can top the fallout that occured after AOL publically released intimate details about what their members have been searching for on their site.

That’s right because of the incident that the EFF dubbed Data Valdez, AOL is this year’s winner of the Turkey award. Thanks to AOL, when we’re sitting down with our families today we can take comfort in knowing that someone out there is likely planning a murder online, the most searched word on AOL is free and that college students love to use the internet to cheat on term papers.

Thank you AOL for making our lives more entertaining by violating the privacy of your subscriber base.