DOGE Bear Attacks, Selective ICE Racism, and Used | Political News

It is time for a new spherical of nominations for nefarious information nonsense! In recognizing the efforts of press unprofessionalism, journalistic sloth, and typically deserved media mockery, we nominate the efforts for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate that previous of muckraking reporting and shoe leather-based investigation, we’ve created The Golden Remington Awards. Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks dedicated precise journalism and hammered out dispatches on these hefty wordsmith gadgets. 

Throughout the 12 months, we compile some of essentially the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the uncoveted dishonor of “winning” our undistinguished Remmy Award. At the top of the 12 months, we acknowledge the greats by gathering examples in a quantity of classes and judiciously selecting the deserving performances. Here are the newest nominees for The Remmys.

Distinguished Explanatory Reporting

The entrenched never-Trumper Ms. Fast delivered what she felt was an indictment of the president for failing to ship on his core marketing campaign points. As they are saying in social media circles, this didn’t age effectively. What is outstanding is that the age issues arose virtually instantly after publishing her critique.

First, she claims Trump is distracted by pushing for gadgets his own celebration is not going to assist, particularly eradicating taxes on suggestions, additional time wages, and Social Security funds. Yes, the GOP is nothing however a celebration opposing tax cuts! But she goes on to level out that – although he has not been in workplace for all of two months – he has carried out nothing to convey down financial stresses like he had campaigned on doing. Then, within a day or two of her sharing this with the public, we obtained information that gasoline was beneath $3.00 within the national average, inflation was decreased more than predicted, and eggs noticed a plunge in costs to a level beneath the place they had been when Trump took workplace.

Donald Trump’s empty guarantees are catching up to him.

Read the newest column from @MollyJongFast: https://t.co/MZMYOiqMlk

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) March 10, 2025

Distinguished Public Service

Unable to restrain itself from the media behavior of discovering a cause to dump on a vacation, CBS News managed to come back up with a strategy to tie St. Patrick’s Day in with the “scandal” within the press relating to President Trump’s deportation insurance policies. Even although ICE raids have been targeted on hardened felony parts and gang members, right here we’re instructed that Irish Americans who should not correctly credentialed face a menace. There is no occasion the place Irish residents have actually been focused, however they “live in fear,” and it’s “a concern” and “a worry.” 

Then one undocumented waitress in Chicago had this excellent quote for the press: 

• While she is anxious she might turn into a “collateral damage” goal for the administration, ICE raids in her neighborhood have focused predominantly Latino communities — one thing she has condemned as racist. 

The solely factor lacking is a quote from a Democrat saying they’re anxious we is not going to have anybody to select our potato crops, so the price of Ruffles will skyrocket.

Irish, undocumented, and uncertain of their future in Trump’s America
https://t.co/KNwfDyxZux

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 12, 2025

Distinguished National News

In one other instance of the press taking the sympathetic strategy to illegals within the nation, Boorstein reported on a D.C. Catholic church putting in new management that may “push for humanization of migrants in the Trump era.”

We should not conscious of anybody – within the administration or elsewhere – at present claiming immigrants should not people, however this is likely to be a flippantly reported element within the national dialogue.

Dozens of Catholic bishops at DC set up of new DC Church chief – a Francis ally, Cardinal McElroy. Other Francis-named cardinals (Tobin, Cupich, Gregory..) will likely be allies in push for humanization of migrants within the Trump period pic.twitter.com/4NCNySTxCq

— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) March 11, 2025

Distinguished Breaking News 

As Lee Zeldin was publishing a sequence of orders the place he was curbing a quantity of actions on the Environmental Protection Agency, this grew to become understandably bothersome to former sportscaster turned climate professional Bill Weir. He got here on to complain about these rollbacks and additionally insulted Zeldin and the EPA for dashing out these orders and left them stuffed with typos and programming placeholders on the pages.

This grievance did nothing to counter the actions, of course, however in his corrective report, Weir was fully incorrect. Where he accused Zeldin of leaving in coding with 4 zeros was actually correct EPA headings for the packages, because it was a string of four-letter “O”s. Bill needed to sheepishly come on the subsequent night time and admit his error, however he retained his disapproval all the identical – although he was guilty of dashing out his countering report with out all of the information as he accused Zeldin of dashing out his studies.

Another media “fact check” face plant the place the very fact checker doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s speaking about. “OOOO b/c” will not be a typo.

40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO, or Quad O, is a federal reg underneath the Clean Air Act.

Also, these aren’t zeroes, it’s the letter “O”. pic.twitter.com/adPkShbPHS

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) March 13, 2025

Distinguished Explanatory Reporting

We have all heard the dire outcomes of DOGE cuts (and none of the optimistic results, of course). Ian Lee is on the scene in a single national park and he was actually putting his life on the road. As Lee defined it, when you arrive at a park and attempt to get bear security info from a ranger station, you’re out of luck and fairly in all probability in peril as a result of the cuts have led to the layoffs of many rangers. 

So when in bear nation you’ll need to control your self accordingly.

CBS’s Ian Lee takes @DOGE Derangement to new heights, now suggesting that price range cuts will get you eaten by a bear:

IAN LEE: Let’s say you simply arrived on the town and you need some details about the forest, possibly a good place to camp or a journey to hike on. Or possibly you’re… pic.twitter.com/G1U09mPkq6

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2025

Distinguished International Reporting

A politician in Switzerland has been fined for a violation of that nation’s gun legal guidelines. Marc Jaisli, a native council member in Buchs, a city west of Zurich, was ordered by prosecutors to pay in Swiss francs a sum totaling over $7,000 US {dollars}. This was on account of his buy from the Chinese website Temu that he made for his godchildren.

The authorities decreed that “because they could be confused for real firearms due to their appearance”, he was in violation – regardless of the “guns being water pistols, made of pink plastic.

A Swiss politician was fined for buying pink water pistols online https://t.co/v1uOC3gKvP

— l carter (@l_bogueflower) March 12, 2025

Distinguished Local Reporting

There was a flurry of police, a Haz-Mat team, and fire rescue activity surrounding a Boca Raton retirement home – or, was there?!

On March 12, Boca News Now broke the story of a grenade possibly located at the St. Andrews Estate North retirement complex. One resident discovered the item in her husband’s effects on site and turned it over to the guards on duty.

This story has no fewer than five updates, including the local Boca Raton Fire Rescue denying being sent out, despite their units being witnessed on scene.

You have to enjoy that this garnered numerous updates including the fire department denying it was involved, though it was spotted on location.https://t.co/3X4AGLyUuF pic.twitter.com/732B19cVtf

— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) March 19, 2025

The New York Post Plaque for Distinguished Headline Writing

“Woman Admits Trying to Sell Human Toes Regurgitated By Dogs”

The solely factor that threw us off about this story was that it originated in Australia and was not a Florida Woman story.

An Australian lady narrowly averted jail on Monday over her plans to promote on the black market two human toes that had been regurgitated by canine on the animal shelter the place she labored. https://t.co/jGvNtgcFai

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 17, 2025

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