This will be the 16th consecutive year that, in Eat the State! and the various other venues where I’ve written, I’ve compiled — usually with the help of my colleague Maria Tomchick — lists of the most overhyped and the most underreported stories of the year. (The list from 2010 is here.) In general, the overhyped stories are an opportunity for merciless ridicule, and the underreported ones are some combination of inspirational and profoundly depressing.
This year, I have a secret weapon: you, the Frog Pond, as savvy a bunch of commenters as there is on the Interwebs. Got any suggestions? Overhyped. Underreported. Leave ’em in the comments.