We continue handing out our awards for the worst seen from the journalism industry in 2025. 

In this installment, we continue delivering honors involving the categories we cover in our daily column “Riffed From the Headlines.” These are the recurring actions seen in the press as they deviate from journalism ethics on the regular. For each category, we compiled the final nominees and declared the winner. It has been a rough process of winnowing down the copious examples collected, but we have come up with the exemplary performances in each instance.

Heckler Awards Pt. 1          Heckler Awards Pt.2         Heckler Awards Pt.3

Honorees are vying for our illustrious pyrite-plated trophy featuring our trademarked back-row popcorn tosser, encrusted with nylon faux-marble, ensconced on a base of crafted domestic pressboard, and a high gloss coat of Onyx Krylon. The judges have turned in the batch of envelopes and are currently recuperating with prescribed pork shoulder doses and a bourbon IV drip. So, with ceremonial introductions aside, let us commence with the pageantry of awarding The Hecklers!

BLUE-ANON (Lapses Into Conspiracies)

Margaret Brennan — CBS News: In a verbal bout with Marco Rubio, she stated the Nazis “weaponized free speech to conduct a genocide.”

Ali Velshi — MSNBC: His guest Elie Mystal declared the Supreme Court ruled that now Donald Trump can murder journalists he does not like, and Velshi nods as if this was deeply trenchant analysis.

Christiane Amanpour — PBS: “I must say, I was afraid. I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea.” She said this about her trip to Boston to speak at Harvard.

Lawrence O’Donnell — MSNBC: Larry suggested that JD Vance was behind the release of the lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump, so he could rise to the position of president.

WINNER 

Nikki McCann Ramirez – Rolling Stone   

When Tulsi Gabbard was releasing the Durham Annex exposing the false Russian collusion narrative, Ramirez had a perfectly sane explanation: The evidence of the Russian collusion narrative being manufactured was manufactured by Russia! It goes something like this… we think:

Yeah, see — Russia planted emails that claim it was all a false flag investigation, so the collusion conspiracy is NOT disproven, based on the conspiracy that Russia created emails inside a U.S. foundation run by George Soros that claim to be creating the Russian collusion conspiracy. And this conspiracy inception only works if you believe Russia planted disqualifying emails back in 2016 — just in case the other information they planted prior to that was found out.

Rolling Stone Commits Conspiracy Inception: Evidence Russian Collusion Was False Was Made Up By Russia?!https://t.co/ZEEJEfSvR9

BORDER-LINE OBSESSION (Hiding Justification for Deportations, to Demonize ICE)

Seema Mehta, James Queally — Los Angeles Times: In the jarring story of a 13-year-old who was killed by his soccer coach, the duo from the LA Times saw fit to omit the detail that this coach was an illegal alien who sexually abused other boys. When the paper later updated the piece with this detail added, it admitted that they had been provided the immigration status months earlier.

CNN: While highlighting three cases of individuals picked up by ICE, the network sympathetically labeled them as “pillars of their community.” CNN had to leave off that all three had extensive criminal records.

Fox Channel 11: The very fact that they describe one detention as ICE arresting a baby was bad enough. But the station had to downplay how the father endangered the infant as he battled with ICE agents.

Sarah Stillman — The New........

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