It is time for a new round of nominations for nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the efforts of the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and deserved media mockery, we nominate the efforts for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the past of muckraking reporting and shoe leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards. Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty wordsmith devices.
Regularly, we compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of “winning” our un-distinguished Remmy Award. At the end of the year, we recognize the greats by gathering examples in a number of categories and judiciously choosing the deserving performances.
Here are the latest nominees for The Remmys.
Distinguished Local Reporting
Jessica Hill, Ricardo Torres-Cortez - Las Vegas Review-Journal
In another example of the press having reflexive opposition to Trump administration decisions regarding immigration, the Vegas paper was upset about the recent decision to rescind protected status for hundreds in the area. Citing that Honduran and Nicaraguan residents were now at risk of being sent back, one expert whined that DHS was actually creating more undocumented immigrants as a result, referring to those who were granted the status as a result of hurricane effects suffered in their homeland.
What the paper failed to contemplate is that these folks were granted this protection, yet it has been a quarter of a century since they were given a status considered to be “temporary.”
Hundreds of Nevada residents from Honduras and Nicaragua who have been shielded from deportation for a quarter-century are set to lose their temporary protection.https://t.co/W0q4T809Qm
— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) July 8, 2025
Distinguished Explanatory Reporting
Eugene Robinson - MSNBC
For the July 4th holiday, the MSNBC commentator saw a need to make things racial. He tried to explain that the fathers of our country would probably be bothered to learn that a current president spoke about hating the other party. He needed to pretend there was no political division back in their day, but then, for no apparent reason, he turned to race.
Daniels next dropped a non-sequitur about how those same men would react to seeing the likes of him on a TV screen. “You know, I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think, those slave-owning ones, about us on this show also.”
We are relatively certain they would marvel at the concept of television and doubtful they would be consumed with outrage over the race of those seen on the magic box.
That time @EugeneDaniels2 thought the Founders would be more upset about a black man on television than they would be blown away about the concept of television.
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) July 16, 2025
“This is a miracle - but why is HE on the screen?!?!?!” pic.twitter.com/wTWeuMLiY9
Distinguished Investigative Reporting
Ryan Nobles, Melanie Zanona - NBC News
In the sheer desperation to minimize the Joe Biden Autopen scandal, these two wizards from NBC tried to suggest that signing a personal online document with a digital signature was the same thing as random White House staff using the signature device to sign thousands of pardons without the president’s awareness. The most revealing detail in all of this is how they worked harder to expose House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) with this neutered gotcha report than they did investigating a probable presidential scandal.
The House Oversight Committee chair used a digital signature to send out letters and subpoena notices related to the Biden autopen investigation. https://t.co/Worzea6MN6
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 15, 2025
Distinguished Public Service
The Miami Herald
Something tells us that by now, residents in South Florida might be aware of the presence of this facility:
I don't want to suggest that the @MiamiHerald is borderline obsessed with Alligator Alcatraz.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 16, 2025
Instead I'll show you.
In under one month's time since it had been announced in late June, the paper has covered the facility in 200 reports. pic.twitter.com/PyAD4klcXu
Distinguished Explanatory Reporting
Matthew Glasser, Dr. Ilan Kokotek - ABC News
There is very little that is not in some way affected by the Global Climate-Environmental Warming Change Crisis. Now we learn from the experts at ABC News that there is another dastardly result.
It is leading to an increase in snoring.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
Rising temperatures, amplified by climate change, are contributing to an increase in cases of sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing repeatedly stops during sleep, according to a new study. https://t.co/7Bq7AcoWv2
— ABC News (@ABC) July 1, 2025
Distinguished Editorial Writing
Tim Cunningham - Washington Post
Nothing says you are a serious news outlet seeking to revamp its reputation as a trusted news source than turning over your op-ed space to a rubber-nosed crank. Seriously, we get this editorial from an avowed clown, who is seemingly disturbed that President Trump is frequently compared to his avocation.
We have to suppose that any day now they will be running an editorial from a Nazi, complaining that the constant comparisons of Trump and Republicans to the Third Reich are degrading the elevated stature of their fascist movement.
Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know.
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) July 10, 2025
Read more from Tim Cunningham: https://t.co/XBMKEyeIxT
Distinguished Cultural Commentary
Guy Trebay - The New York Times
We learn today from The Times Style Section that the best way for the pampered set in this nation to display their privileged, wealthy stature is to adorn themselves in a lack of color. Apparently, the best way to flaunt your exquisite taste and style is to display a lack of such.
“To be fashionably superrich, is to be clad in the anodyne colors of baby food, tea cookies or screen savers: latte, oatmeal, cream, butterscotch, café au lait.”
Chanel’s 50 Shades of Beige are anything but boring 🤎 From classic Beige Clair to the pumpkin-spice-tinted “Caramel” brown of 21P, these hues rarely return. With fresh shades every season, these timeless neutrals are pure investment magic.
— FASHIONPHILE (@fashionphile) July 15, 2025
Shop now: https://t.co/UfK5YOZtSw pic.twitter.com/WhqPP3pDLR
The Silver Ricecake Platter (for content-free reporting, sponsored by Quaker)
Barret Wertz - New York Post
We don't give a damn about the Kardashians, but now we see that they in fact do give one.
We are certain this was done in a bid to promote a product and earn some royalties from click-through commerce, but frankly, what writer would not feel a level of shame in covering their own fecal stagnation trials, and the relief experienced after using a product provided by a Kardashian?!?! Well, Barret Wertz is such a writer.
We could have done without Barret detailing how he was helped in the process to defecate, using Kourtney Kardashian Barker’s gut-friendly go-poo-poo gummies. And we also could have done without the photo of her promoting her line of luxury laxatives by lounging on a loo.
Kourtney Kardashian helped me poop — I was skeptical but following her worked liked a charm https://t.co/iSyBxIENac pic.twitter.com/LNRH5rGCoR
— New York Post (@nypost) July 14, 2025
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