2011 has been a bad year for bad boys. Berlusconi between jobs, Mubarak out of office and Gaddafi no more. Granted, their levels of badness vary, as do their motives for stepping down. Uniting them, however, was a common desire to control information and a will to extensively use propaganda. Both these traits are especially unhelpful for anyone hoping to succeed in today's transparent media landscape. Apparently, not even owning every media channel or gun in the country can help you