Categorical Aperitif

I see that Greg Mitchell is asking readers to send suggestions for a list of 30 Biggest Media Heroes to complement Salon's list of the 30 Biggest Media Hacks (I haven't had the strength to peruse the whole thing yet); voting ends "late Friday," i.e. today, so get your suggestions in quickly. Here's thirty off the top of my head, in no particular order:

• Bob Somerby (The Daily Howler)
• Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, and everybody at Democracy Now!
• Robert McChesney
• David Brock
• Eric Boehlert
• Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman (for Manufacturing Consent in particular)
• FAIR (everybody there)
• Media Matters for America (everybody there)
• Robert Parry
• Jon Stewart + the writers, performers, and crew of The Daily Show
• Stephen Colbert + his writers and crew
• digby
• Glenn Greenwald
• Dean Baker
• Paul Krugman
• The Yes Men
• Tom Tomorrow
• Danny Schecter
• Matt Taibbi
• Naomi Klein
• Atrios
• David Sirota
• Greg Palast
• Michael Moore
• Jim Hightower
• Norman Solomon
• Jay Rosen
• Greg Mitchell
• Jean Kilbourne
• Robert Jensen

Send suggestions if you've got 'em to the comments section on GM's post, to epic1934@aol.com, or to @GregMitch on that Twitter thing. It's a little disturbing to look at that comments section and see so many TV people (Chris Matthews?!?!? media hero?), but oh well.