Martini Awards Part 5: Most Overreported Story, Most Underreported Story, Best Story of 2019

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Oh man, it's media day in our year-end Three Martini Lunch awards and Jim and Greg are holding nothing back. 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 what they saw as the best stories of 2019.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
0:02.0	Albe's the answer.
0:03.0	Which supermarket is both which cheapest supermarket
0:06.0	2022 and good housekeeping reader's favorite
0:09.0	supermarket 2023.
0:11.0	spoiler alert, it ain't asder
0:13.0	yes aldi is the answer
0:16.0	shop at aldi and see if you could save your family fortunes
0:24.7	welcome to the Three Martini lunch. Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:29.6	Three Martini's coming up.
0:32.0	So glad you're with us on this Monday edition of the Three Martini lunch.
0:37.0	We are in installment number five of our year-end Three Martini Awards.
0:42.0	The Crystal Martiniinis are going fast. Today and
0:44.8	tomorrow are the final installments. We'll be off on New Year's Day and then back January 2nd.
0:50.0	So, Jim, today's the day we scrutinize the media from 2019 and we could spend hours talking
0:59.8	about the horrific performance of the media in so many different dimensions this year, but we're going to limit it. the the year and the best story of 2019. So let's start with over reported. What tops your list?
1:16.5	There's a whole lot in this one Greg and let's point out any day when you and I are going to spend it talking
1:20.8	about the media. I actually had my spleen take steroids just so I could
1:26.0	vent it so much because you know there's just not enough bile in the world. So it's become a
1:31.6	cliche. I'm going to go with I think as a slam dunk. This was when I didn't even have a second category which means you may be in trouble.
1:38.0	Okay. Because I just went with this one. The Russia collusion story. It has become a cliche at this point that this the
1:46.1	revelation of the Mueller report and the fact that he did not find evidence to
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