In recognizing the dregs of press unprofessionalism, journalistic sloth, and general media malpractice we have created “The Golden Remmington Awards,” a nod to the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on these hefty wordsmith devices. With an eye to that past of muckraking reporting and shoe leather investigation, we acknowledge those who fail today in audacious fashion.
These are the inauspicious nominations, in several categories, for this year’s Remmys.
DISTINGUISHED NATIONAL REPORTING
This report on the “questionable” content on the website of former representative and potential GOP candidate Mayra Flores is bad enough, but when weighed against the weeks the press spent excusing away the Claudine Gay story, it becomes more ridiculous. For some reason, after we had been lectured about stealing intellectual property in…
