In recognizing the dregs of press unprofessionalism, journalistic sloth, and generally deserved media mockery, we have created “The Golden Remington Awards,” a nod to the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty wordsmith devices. With an eye to that past of muckraking reporting and shoe leather investigation, we acknowledge those who fail today in an audacious fashion.
These are the inauspicious nominations, in several categories, for this year’s Remmys.
Distinguished National Reporting
When Mark Robinson won the nomination for the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Bendery managed to conveniently “unearth” a new video. (You are a liar and a communist, if you suggest they were sitting on that video all this time!) This featured Robinson giving a speech where – according to Bendery – he said he wanted to take…
