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Biden’s Fossil, Brady’s Ball, and Steven Seagal – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 16, 2022

Our weekly recognition of less-than-meritorious excellence in journalism is worthy of Pulitzer Prize consideration.

As an extension of the media-mocking venture at Townhall, Riffed From The Headlines, we once again recognize the exalted performances in our journalism industry and compile worthy submissions to the Pulitzer Prize board in numerous categories. Let’s get to the best examples of journalistic failure-excellence in order to properly identify the low watermark of the media.

Distinguished Investigative Journalism

  • Jeff Cercone — PolitiFact

Fact-checkers find it difficult to navigate through the fog of war. It is becoming increasingly difficult to discern the truth in misleading information when both sides are releasing psy-ops or other misinformation mission-centric. While it’s important to remove lies from wartime propaganda, we believe that clarifying who Steven Segal is is sufficient. It is notSupporting Russian troops in Ukraine

Distinguished National Reporting

The MSNBC hostess The Reid OutIt is a shocking revelation. After many years of media manipulation, this is a surprising revelation. “The Handmaid’s Tale”You would imagine Joy Reid would have consumed at least some of these offerings. There has been plenty of time to understand the concepts, whether it was by reading the book, watching the film or binging Hulu seasons.

Reid, however, shows that she is not familiar with the sources. Reid attempts to attack Florida and describes an alternate plotline. Joy, the notion of forced female repression or cloaked women held by males cannot be presented by suggesting that this setting looks more like Hedonism Resort.

Distinguished Sports Reporting

  • Scott Hansen — NFL Network

This weekend’s big football news was when Tom Brady revealed that he would not be retiring and instead, would return to Tampa Bay for the 23rd consecutive season. There were mixed reactions across the football fanbase, but possibly the loudest opponent was the individual who had recently won the right to own what had previously been Tom Brady’s last touchdown football.

Making it worse is the auction took place just one day ahead of Brady’s announcement. At Leland’s Sports Auctions someone dropped $518,000 on the ball that now will be regarded as little more than a trivia answer unless Brady blows out his knee on the opening drive of the season.

Distinguished Cultural Commentary

Look, we understand there might be the occasional slow news day – but with a war raging, inflation surging, gas prices spiking, our border leaking, AND TOM BRADY UNRETIRING…there is plenty of content. That’s why it is a bit of a mystery why Newsweek is covering some activity regarding the stage play “Rent.” We hear how during a performance, a possible hate crime took place.

The theater company released a statement about a ‘Horrible Incident’ at one of its shows, sounding close to being a case of severe intolerance. We are then given the full details. The show was performed in England. One audience member left the stage after realizing that it featured gay characters. One — person. This is new.

The Distinguished Explanatory Reporting

  • Sam Tonkin — The Daily Mail

Reporting on an asteroid hitting Earth is a great story. Although it’s not likely that everyone will read your report, they may get distracted and stop trying to figure out why you chose a comparative measurement. Many people were distracted from describing an asteroid half the size as a giraffe and missed important details in the Iceland supernal event.

Distinguished Feature Writing 

  • Maya Yang — The Guardian

Joe Biden was given the honour of having a prehistoric new species named for him. An undiscovered marine creature was discovered by a researcher who had been analyzing fossils stored away. The creature was named “Dad”. Syllipsimopodi bideni It is a ten-armed vampire, squid.  It seems fitting that Biden’s name would be lent to an indestructible creature.?

Internationally Distinguished Reporting

  • Samantha Bartlett — Daily Star

With St. Patrick’s Day just about here, it is understandable that features would arrive about the festivities. You can get clickbait attention by focusing on stars who dress for St. Patrick’s Day. This is especially true if there are adult entertainers doing the same. If you make it unusual for a porn actor to do this without wearing undergarments, then that strikes me as a bit unnewsworthy.

 

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