As the year draws to a close, we like to highlight some of the American media's worst abuses that occurred during the past year. We have picked 10 stories for which there were general narratives presented by the mainstream media--narratives that ignored the larger truths to be gleaned from these stories. In other cases, the media missed the story altogether. We easily could have picked many more that meet those criteria, but arbitrarily chose to look at 10, in no particular order.