Okay, it's the end up the week, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up Monday morning, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections.

Okay, Friday, last nominee. There'll be a poll for all you sorry suckers still stuck at work toward the end of the day. Your final choice follows. Please send us more articles, we need something to leaven all the spam.

We've only been doing this feature for a month and we're already running out of ways to ask you for your submissions. Just submit, 'kay?

Speaking of Great Moments in Journalism, remember Dan Barry? He writes the "About New York" column for the Times and was the inaugural winner of the contest. As promised, we sent him a copy of a copy of Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel. Well, on our return home yesterday we found a package, addressed from the New York Times. Dan sent the book back! We had suggested that if he already had a copy he consider donating it to a library; in his estimation, the library that needed it most was ours! Dan also sent a handwritten letter that was both condescending and polite at the same time. We're not going to share it, since we're unsure about privileged communications and such, but we will say this: It's the best thing he's ever written.

Now that you people are actually sending some decent submissions to Great Moments in Journalism it would make us cry if you stopped. So don't.

Great Moments in Journalism depends upon the submissions of readers who blah blah blah, send us your goddamn nominees, people, we're dying over here.

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Okay, it's the end up the week, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up Monday morning, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections.

• Ross Gelbspan thinks journalists have been "duped" by the fossil-fuel industry's P.R. people; we prefer to think that they're just lazy. [Grist]
• Or maybe they've got more important stories to cover. [CNN]
• Either way, great journalism is being practiced on both sides of the pond. [Independent]

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For the love of God, we need your nominations. Send them here.

Great Moments in Journalism relies upon your contributions. Let's try to go easy on the "wacky pet" stories, though, okay?

Well, the polls are more or less closed (thank you, Gawker technology!), and last week's winner is Michelle O'Donnell, for her anthropomorphic Times piece. Michelle will receive a copy of The Gay Talese reader. Today's entry also comes from the Times, but it's a very special guest: David¹ Foster² Wallace³. See you after the jump!

Due to the advanced technology here at Gawker Media, polls for this week's Great Moments in Journalism award were mostly unavailable this weekend. In fairness to all the authors nominated, we're going to keep them open one more day and announce the winner tomorrow; make your voice heard. In the meantime, please continue sending us your submissions.

Okay, it's the end up the week, time to choose. Please select your favorite entry from the poll below (Note: each selection will take you back to the original piece, in case you need to refresh your memory.). The poll will remain open until, oh, whenever the hell we wake up Monday morning, at which point we'll announce the winner and the prize. In the meantime, keep reading, and keep sending us your selections.

It's been another fine week for bad prose and strained metaphors . Please continue to send us your nominees. Later in the day we'll set up a poll where you can vote for this week's winner, but right now we're going to bring you the final candidate.

Surely you know the drill by now. Send us your nominations.

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Like weeds in the cracked pavement of an abandoned city playground, we thrive upon the steady trickle of your nomations. Water us.

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