The student tried to joke about some of the more egregious social-media conspiracies: that their classmate David Hogg was an F.B.I. plant, or a twenty-six-year-old felon from California.
But it's egregious for the media, through inaccurate inference, exaggeration, and a failure to give all the facts, to over-blow their significance.
As many saw it, Spitzer's modus operandi was to build a case against his targets, then push the most egregious allegations in the media, which put unbearable public pressure on the targets to settle.
The activist group Free Press has built a Digg-like Web site for such mistakes, called MediaFail, that highlights what its users think are the most egregious examples of the "media behaving badly," to borrow its slogan.
Nevertheless: Was it really necessary for yesterday's paper to run not one but two front-page softball features on egregious extreme-right-wing media provocateuses, Ann Al Gorere — total fag") Coulter and Pamela (Barack Obama — "involved with a crack whore in his youth") Gellar, splashed respectively across the front pages of the Sunday Styles and Metropolitan sections?
Rather than picking on individual writers, editors, producers and commentators, let me list the most egregious misconceptions that the media foisted on Americans in its coverage of the budget: 1.
But much more egregious is that the media hasn't bothered assessing the exit polling from the primaries that they paid for to determine whether McCain was actually excelling with this group, just as Obama, Clinton and Huckabee had greatly over-performed with their groups.
I largely blame the media for this egregious abuse of power and influence.
"The mainstream news media was as egregious in its failure to do its job," he wrote, "as the U.S. intelligence community was in its failure to produce accurate intelligence on Iraq's non-existent WMD".
Among the most egregious ways in which the media's insistence on false equivalency between the two political parties manifests itself is in voting itself.
