What did the mainstream media miss in 2008?

Attention, WND newshounds! As it does every year, WND is inviting readers to submit their candidates for the most "spiked" stories of the year in Operation Spike!

At this time, news organizations prepare their year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months. But WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a compilation of the important stories most ignored by the establishment press.

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WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988, and since founding WorldNetDaily in May 1997 has continued the annual tradition. For the past 10 years, WND has invited its readers to join in and submit what they considered the most underreported stories of the past year.

Last year, WorldNetDaily's "readers' choice" picks for the 10 most underreported stories of 2007 were:

1. Developments moving U.S. and continent closer to a North American Union.

2. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned Border Patrol Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were prosecuted by the president's friend, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton.

3. Research refuting man-made global warming.

4. Lack of action on border fence mandated by Congress.

5. California bill introducing homosexuality to young children.

6. Hillary and her felonious fundraising.

7. Illegal aliens who rape, murder, kill driving drunk, commit voter fraud, welfare fraud and burden the system.

8. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's resignation from the Senate Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, which she chaired, amid a conflict of interest due to her husband's ownership of two major defense contractors.

9. Progress of Law of the Sea Treaty.

10. Syria's alleged WMDs and Israel's attack.

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Previous stories:

The most ignored stories of 2007

10 most underreported stories of 2006

The 2005 'spike' list

The year's 10 most underreported stories

Most 'spiked' stories of 2003

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10 most 'spiked' stories of 2001

Most under-reported stories of 2000

Biggest spikes of 1999

Most under-reported stories of '97