TOP 15 MEDIA EVENTS of 2008 :

TOP 15 MEDIA EVENTS of 2008 :
MEDIA EVENT:
1. USA & WorldWide Economic woes

2. Obama elected. Hillary Clinton . joe biden. also Jeremiah Wright denver convention.
3. Price of Gas/ Oil co. profits / sources of energy
4. Iraq war 5th Anniversary , Maliki. surge results. withdrawal time-table.
5. mccain/palin/ron paul.
6. Iran. ahmadinejad. moktada al sadr.
7. hurricanes, extreme weather. gustav. hanna. ike. climate change.
8. israel's war-like bombing of hamas in gaza.
9. ron blogojevich sells senate seat
10. bernie madoff ponzi scheme.
11. eliot spitzer & ashley dupree

12. OJn Simpson convicted

13. Sean Bell Trial
14. Heath Ledger death

15. Psycho santa XMas eve murders

RUNNERS - UP : Jerome Kerviel loses $7.2 Billion from Societe Generale Bank.. Sarkozy & Carla Bruni Marry.. Jimmy Carter/Hamas .. Tornadoes in South, Virginia .. Pakistan/Musharref resigns ... . Baseball steroids/Clemens/Bonds/last seasons yankee & shea stadiums. .. Venezuela & Equador vs Columbia .. Daryl Littlejohn trial .. Fidel Castro & Vlad Putin step down .. Riots in Tibet / Dalai Lama .. Pope USA tour .. China earthquake chengdu .. Beirut cyclones.. Syria/Israel summit . Floods & Tornadoes in Iowa/Illinois/Missouri.: extreme weather. trop storm fay ,... Mugabe violent election in Zimbabwe... brinkley/cook divorce... hurricane bertha.. olympics, phelps, usain bolt.. ..... bruce ivins suicide/anthrax... clark rockefeler & snooks reigh... ... russia invades georgia. ...darryl littlejohn trial....lindsay lohan/sam ronson... NY Giants/Plaxico .. caroline kennedy for governor.... Madonna divorce/A Rod


RIP: bo diddley .. .george carlin.. ruslana korshunova. .isaac hayes... bobby murcer .. killer kowalski.. .pervis 12:45 jackson. .. rick wright...paul newman... david foster wallace...levi stubbs...tom tresh... neil hefti... yma sumac... john leonard... Teo Macero. Baird Jones. Wm F Buckley. Bobby Fischer . Albert Hoffman. Klaus Dinger. YSL., Tim Russert. Rocky Aoki.. bettie page.. forrest j ackerman... Paul Benedict [mr bentley]... doc ellis... francois xavier lalanne ... sammy baugh ... eartha kitt... mark feld [deep throat]... suzanne pleshette...robert rauschenberg... heath ledger... harold pinter... ted lapidus...Delaney Bramlett.... Willoughby Sharp.... George Brecht....Gene Upshaw...
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MEDIA/NEWS EVENTS:

1) Iraq war/ surge/ maliki/ reduction in violence

2) Intergovernmental panel on climate change of the UN 2/2/07.

3) Iran/ nukes/ ahmadinejad

4) obama/hillary/edwards/biden/kusinich/richardson democratic field

5) al gore wins nobel peace prize.

6) republican field incl thompson, giuliani, ball, mccain, romney, huckabee

7) virginia tech massacre

8)assassination of benazir bhutto/ musharref military crackdown in pakistan

9) sean bell grand jury.

10) eliot spitzer & immigration drivers licences/ feud vs bruno

11) hamas vs fatah in palestine.

12) michaelangelo antonioni 1912-2007

13) tom snyder 1936-2007

14) sol lewitt 1928-2007 .

15) cia destroys video of detention torture.

16) ingmar bergman dies.

17) WCBS FM 101.1 back on air.

18) steroids in baseball;

RUNNERS UP: anna nicole smith + baby dna. britney, lindsay lohan & paris hilton tabloid hell. stock market breaks 13000 record . scooter libby guilty & commuted sentence. bronx soumare mali fire. greenwich village shootout. Iran seizes 15 english navy. attorney general gonzales & lawyer firings. sanjaya malakar on AI. Imus fired for rutgers remarks/ & comeback. Don ho 1930-2007 . mayor bloomberg's green plan for nyc + congestion pricing. pat tillman death inquiry. vladimir putin cool war remarks. bloomberg for president? chris benoit double murder/suicide. london + glasgow terror plans. gordon brown new english PM. nasa astronaut shenanigans. michael vick dog-fighting arrest. barry bonds home run record & perjury. debates incl YouTube. bridge collapse in MN. 2 firemen die at deutchebank. merv griffin 1925-2007. spencer pratt/heidi montag vs lauren conrad. larry craig bathroom pick up. leona helmsley/trouble will. maddie and her parents. 50 cent vs kanye 9/11. amadinejad visits NYC/UN/columbia. phil spector trial hung jury. blackwater shootings in iraq. sri chinmoy 1931-2007. putin & amahdinejad meet re:nukes. kurds vs turkey. writers strike. broadway strike. evil knieval 1938-2007. led zep reunion.