It is time for a new round of nominations of nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards. 

The 2025 Golden Remington Awards — Celebrating the Year in Fractured Journalism: Part 3, The Major Honors

Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys.

Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year!


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Distinguished National News

There has been every display of imbalanced behavior from the Minnesota anti-ICE protestors. There has also been every type of defense and support for them in the media. That said, we are still trying to wrap our heads around Chris Hayes, as he compared the antics and the organized resistance to what is normnally seen from soccer moms.


Distinguished Local Reporting

In a sterling example of the need in the press to reframe facts in order to deliver sympathetic narratives about ICE detentions, this one is among the best. It is described as unethical the way agents inside a courthouse created a scene when they were collecting an 18-year-old, and anti-ICE protestors intervened. 

What was given light coverage was how this individual was there while facing 1st degree drug charges after being arrested for trafficking, while in possession of 50 pounds of meth.

Sure, let’s keep this individual on the streets of Minneapolis.


Distinguished Investigative Reporting

There has been no shortage of neutered and ineffectual protests against ICE efforts, but the journalism savants at Rolling Stone may have found the most ludicrous.

The magazine excitedly covered that there is a group of people considered American Girl Influencers (who knew?), and they are expressing their resistance by adorning their dolls in custom fashions displaying opposition to the immigration enforcement efforts.


Distinguished Cultural Commentary

Amid all the other conflicts and problems in the world currently, the financial periodical has tabbed another crisis that is afflicting the globe.

There is a desperate lack of tenors for choirs.

This is affecting things to a level that certain musical selections are being avoided by groups, and even new compositions that are being created are avoiding parts and writing in a style that avoids requiring those male voices.


Silver Ricecake Platter (for Content-Free Reporting)

In what the celebrity gossip site touts as an EXCLUSIVE (entirely because no one else thought of covering such), the site detailed how the mother of NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce is in the process of renovating her home.


Distinguished Cultural Criticism

When the documentary about the First Lady was released it was assured that the entertainment press was not going to be kind. But even with that promised aggression baked in, it was not too much to expect a modicum of professionalism to be applied. Not so with Uhlich, who did not even feign that he was doing his job. 

As expected, he gave the documentary a scathing review. The issue was that he admitted he was doing so, while boycotting actually watching the movie he was “reviewing”.


Distinguished Political Cartooning

Despite the overwhelming success of Epic Fury and Iran losing its leadership, its missile capability, and its entire navy, the press has been insisting this is a failed mission. Joining in on the ridiculousness was The Economist, which thought it was clever with its cover depiction of the president, blinded by his military ambition.