The Shirely goes to . . .

Evan Bright is the 18-year-old high school senior who has reported on the Steven D. Green War Crimes trial and the sentencing. He does that on his Twitter feed and on his website. He does that because he thinks the trial matters.



We were very fortunate to be able to interview him (for which we thank him) in "Evan Bright Puts Big Media To Shame." But we were discussing it and thinking he deserved the highest honor we give out, the Shirley, named after Shirley Chisholm, unbought and unbossed.



The sentencing of Green will end soon. There may or may not be future appeals. But when it mattered, when the the gang-rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, her murder, the murder of her parents and her five-year-old sister could've resulted in apathy or disinterest for a high school senior -- the way it did for so much of the press, Evan Bright stepped up. We thank him for that and we thank him for his informed and informative coverage.