2025 Martini Awards Part 5: Most Overreported Story, Most Underreported Story, Best Story of 2025

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It's media day in our year-end 3 Martini Lunch awards and Jim and Greg have plenty to say about how things were covered - if they were covered at all. Specifically, they look at the stories the mainstream media covered far too much, the ones they conveniently ignored because they didn't fit their narrative, and they highlight what they saw as the best stories of 2025.

First, they dig into the most overreported stories of the year, with Jim choosing a constant drumbeat from the mainstream media to help get a truly radical candidate elected in New York City. Greg says the media's obsession with turning every Trump story into a possible scandal is non-stop, but there was one incredibly inconsequential construction project in Washington that they just could not shut up about.

Then it's on to the stories the media didn't cover much or didn't want to cover. Jim points to the scant media attention given to the remarkable educational advancements happening in Mississippi. Greg focuses on the media's yawning over the persecution of Christians, even when Trump and the pope are speaking out against it.

Finally, they reveal their selections for best stories of the year. Jim focuses on the biggest diplomatic achievement of the year, was more than two years in the making, and brought relief or closure to many families. Greg's selection is much more personal, focusing on the incredible achievements of a family friend.

Make sure to listen on Wednesday as Greg and Jim unveil their selections for Person of the Year, Loser of the Year, and Turncoat of the Year.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:05.0	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.0	Three Martini's coming up.
0:12.0	Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.
0:17.0	We are still on our amazing series of Year End Awards from the Three Martini Lunch
0:22.4	we started Tuesday of last week. So a week ago now with the most overrated, underrated,
0:27.9	and honest figures. We got to rising stars and fading to oblivion. Best ideas, worst ideas,
0:32.8	best political theater, worst political theater. Tomorrow we'll get to person of the year,
0:37.4	loser of the year and turn code of the year,
0:40.0	and later in the week predictions.
0:41.7	But today we're focusing on the media
0:43.7	with the most over-reported,
0:45.8	under-reported, and the best story of 2025.
0:49.4	So, Jim, what's the most over-reported story of 2025?
0:53.8	Greg, for this one, I'm going to get really specific, right? Because it surrounds the impending New York City mayor, Zerun Mamdami. And I've, you know, you can't dispute he was a big story. The New York City mayor's race is always kind of a pretty big deal. Much more of importance to New York City than nationwide, but New York
1:10.8	City being the center of the media world, of course, it gets more attention. No, no, the specific
1:14.8	kind of overreported story was a magazine cover profiling Mom Dami and talking about him being
1:21.1	the fresh new face of the Democratic Party with him smiling like this, like the biggest smile,
1:26.7	as Senator Alive said, the kind of smile
1:28.0	that looked like he hurts his face. I went through and I counted the magazine covers for Mom
1:32.6	Domney. Time magazine, September 8th. The New Yorker magazine, November 17th, which is right after
1:38.1	he'd won. Credit for that for at least waiting until he was elected. New York Times
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