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Posted on 02/23/2022 1:01:48 PM PST by TChad
“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest,” the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, “that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.”
Except the journalism that the Pulitzers honored — a 2018 National Reporting prize shared by the Washington Post and the New York Times for reporting on Russiagate — did no such thing.
It led to a dramatic misunderstanding, suggesting that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to help sway the 2016 election — a grand conspiracy that we now know never existed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Many leftists still believe Trump told people to inject bleach.
And called Proud Boys "fine people."
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded on the basis of advocacy, not accuracy.
They will never, ever drop this.
See what the NY Times did with Walter Duranty, a drunk who got the Pulitzer Prize for lying about Soviet Russia, denied there was any famine in Ukraine (it killed 8 million people) and wrote only about the phony Potemkin villages the Bolsheviks created. This “newspaper” has not disavowed the Pulitzer Prize for this weasel.
Yep, there is a local a-hole that always comments on articles in the local paper web site that calls Trump “The Clorox clown”. Can’t let go of the TDS.
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A Pulitzer isn’t an award, it’s a stain.
Pulitzer committee announces new prize category, called "Deep Throaters" for "Journalistic excellence in swallowing Deep State lies"
They can’t, they own it. Without them the story wouldn’t exist.
See Tagline included with every post.
Change its Same to the Putzes Price.!!
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