This year’s nominees for The Trashies left us spoilt for choice. Narrowing down the nomination pool to a manageable worst of the worst was very difficult. (For the many people who nominated Richard Littlejohn’s body of work, don’t worry – his lifetime achievement award will come soon.)
We also have a new addition to #TheTrashies this year: an award for worst UK publication. While there are many deserving publications around the world, our mostly UK-based team means that we’re starting with the mainstream media that’s closest to home.
Read more about why we host the annual #TheTrashies Awards here
Now the decision is yours – which of this year’s choices will win #TheTrashies?
UPDATE: 25/03/16
Jury Selection #TheTurboTrash Prize will take in to account post tragedy reporting and comment articles. Nominations have again been crowd-sourced and will be whittled down to:
2) Highly commended
1) Winner of…
Judges:
Symeon Brown (Journalist, Reporter)
Shelina Janmohamed (Journalist)
Afua Hirsch (Broadcast Journalist)
Hussein Kesvani (Freelance journalist)
Nominations:
Douglas Murray: A terrorist attack has happened in Europe. Let the standard response begin (Spectator)
Katie Hopkins: If Europe accepts Muslim terror is normal we can’t stay (Daily Mail)
Rod Liddle: Like London, Brussels has allowed itself to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism (Spectator)
Maajid Nawaz: Reform Muslims Stand Up To Take On the Ideology of Islamism (Daily Beast)
Piers Morgan: Isn’t it time we listened to Trump on terror? (Daily Mail)
Daniel Greenfield Media Already Running “Muslims Fear Blowback” Stories After Brussels (Front Page Magazine)
Allison Pearson: Why stay in the EU when its capital is also the capital of jihadism in Europe? (Telegraph)
Haris Rafiq: Brussels can deploy all the troops it wants. It won’t solve anything (Spectator)
Yasmin Alibhai-brown: Will no one admit the way some Muslims raise kids is fomenting terror? (Daily Mail)
Announcement at #TheTrashies Awards Ceremony 1st April
#TheTrashies Articles
- Margaret Wente: Race and gender: I feel, therefore I am (The Globe and Mail)
- Richard Littlejohn: Did Michelle Obama not see the irony in delivering a speech on female emancipation to a school full of girls in headscarves in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets? (And is this the face Britain wants to show the world?) (The Daily Mail)
- Caroline Iggulden: Murder, drugs, extortion… Why the hell is Beyonce saluting the criminal Black Panthers? (The Sun)
- Allison Pearson: Why Angela Merkel’s negotiations with Turkey are worrying for the UK (The Daily Telegraph)
- Steve Robson: Gangster-tattooed young dad shot dead in Wood Green by police ‘had links to notorious Mark Duggan firm’ (The Daily Mirror)
- Kamal Daoud: The Sexual Misery of the Arab World (The New York Times)
- Telegraph View: Britain’s proud history cannot be rewritten (The Daily Telegraph)
- Janice Turner: Feminists are betraying their Muslim sisters (The Times)
- Music Week: 30 Under 30: The Future of the Music Biz (Music Week)
- Suzanne Moore: Black Pride at the Super Bowl? Beyoncé embodies a new political moment (The Guardian)
- John Simpson: Imam beaten to death in sex grooming town (The Times)
- Simon Heffer: Paris is tragic proof that Enoch Powell was right about threats to our country (The Daily Telegraph)
- Express & Star: Black Country flag row: Apology demanded when historian visits (Express & Star )
- wSieci (Network) (cover): Islamic Rape of Europe [CONTENT WARNING]
- David Mitchell: The trouble with people who lived in the past (The Guardian)
- Time Magazine (cover): The Secret War Crime [CONTENT WARNING]
- Tom Newton Dunn: 1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis (The Sun)
- Amitai Etzioni: Should Israel Flatten Beirut to Destroy Hezbollah’s Missiles? (Haaretz)
- Julia Hartley-Brewer: Of course worrying about immigration doesn’t make you racist – why’s the Archbishop only just noticed? (The Daily Telegraph)
- Ian Dunt: The left needs to address the rise of identity politics (Politics.co.uk)
- Hadley Freeman: Why cast a lighter-skinned actor as Nina Simone? Here come the racesplainers (The Guardian)
- Malcolm Knox: The trouble with being Chris Gayle – it all comes down to respect (smh.com.au)
- Brendan O’Neill: The ‘anti-racist’ crowd have resorted to the old politics of racism (The Spectator)
- Piers Morgan: Idon’t watch the Oscars to get harangued about racism, rape, sex abuse, greedy bankers, global warming and gay rights. I watch to be entertained. (Daily Mail)
- David Mitchell: Don’t ban Donald Trump. Just keep on laughing at him (The Guardian)
- Margaret Wente: White America dons the shroud of guilt http://fw.to/0E7Rx9i (The Globe and Mail)
- Helen Lewis: Why is ‘yellowface’ wrong yet pantomime dames are OK? (The Guardian)
- Richard Williams: Maria Sharapova’s aura will forever bear a blemish amid the doubts (The Guardian)
- Sarah Vine: Smugness of Women’s Day drives me insane (Daily Mail)
- Radhika Sanghani : Ab Fab film: ‘Yellowface’ isn’t racist – it’s called acting? (The Telegraph)
- Anonymous: I Can’t Fall For Fat Women, I Only Want A Slim Girlfriend Because They Are Different (Akkar_Bakkar)
- Bill Leak: Cartoon depicting Indians eating solar panels (The Australian )
- Ben Rothenberg: Tennis’s Top Women Balance Body Image With Ambition (New York Times)
- Jane Fynes-Clinton: Sorry, but there’s no reason to be sorry, Alice Kunek should not apologize for blackface scandal (Daily Telegraph Australia)
- Dr Richard Hoskins: Jihadis, voodoo, murders, sex trafficking… we can stop them all if we quit EU, says crime expert (TheSun)
- Hugo Gye: A history of extremism: How Islamic societies in London have ‘Failed to combat hardline views’ (Daily Mail)
- Jeff Arnold: Who is Daniel Holtzclaw” Linebacker (SB Nation)
- Manny Fernandez, Serge F. Aleski and Alan Blinder: 170 Bikers Charged in Melee With Roots in ’60s (New York Times)
- Julia Hartley-Brewer: Today’s feminists are so out of touch with how most women live, they might as well be on another planet (The Telegraph)
- Stuart Pink: Kicked in the Bowls: Beyonce in Black power race storm
- Ellen Barry: With Sri Srinivasan, Indian Town Prays for a ‘Son’ on Supreme Court
Up to 4 choices:
Publications:
- The Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph
- London Evening Standard
- The Guardian/The Observer
- Metro
- The Independent/Independent on Sunday
- The New Day
- The Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday
- The Spectator
- The New Statesman
- Financial Times
- The Times/The Sunday Times
- City A.M.
- The Daily Express/The Sunday Express
- The Sun/The Sun on Sunday
- The Daily Mirror/The Sunday Mirror
- Sunday People
- The Daily Star/The Daily Star Sunday
Voted Guardian because while its racism isn’t as overt as The Sun or Spectator, it’s much more hypocritical.
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The cover of wSieci is so horrible.
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A couple of these aren’t really Trashy in the sense of being bad (racist or sexist) articles in my opinion. I am thinking of the Hadley Freeman and Suzanne Moore articles. Can someone tell me what’s wrong with them?
The others are really trashy though.
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Here you go Maya, but we suspect you may have already read it: https://mediadiversified.org/2016/03/15/thetrashies-decolonising-the-white-gaze/
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