Posted on 04/19/2006 6:25:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
The Pulitzer awards reflect discontent (Of course discontent with President Bush means that it is okay to give Pulitzer Prizes to a newspaper which lied about the NSA non story while breaking National Security Laws.)
Commentary: By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Apr 19, 2006
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Many awards presentations are accused of being out of touch with the public or even appearing to be popularity contests. But I contend that many of the Pulitzer Prizes, handed out on Monday, accurately reflected the nation's growing discontent with President Bush.
In particular, the awards presented to reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times (NYTNew York Times Company as well as editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution could be called a reflection of Bush's declining national approval rating.
Cited for national reporting, Risen and Lichtblau broke the news of the administration's wiretapping program. Priest, winning in the beat-reporting category, was commended for stories about secret prisons and the government's counterterrorism efforts. Luckovich wittily skewered the administration's policies on many occasions.
The wiretapping story seems like the most compelling one of all. It has dominated the Washington talk shows for months and triggered a slew of fascinating sub-plots. The administration has contended that it needed to counter the threat of domestic terrorism while critics have said the program was a blow to civil liberties and reduced individuals' privacy. Awards are like children -- editors, like parents, say publicly that they love them all equally. But I wouldn't be surprised if this one especially pleased the Times hierarchy.
If anything, the Pulitzer vindicates the Times as a hard-hitting and public-spirited news operation. Originally, Times' critics blasted the paper for sitting on the Risen-Lichtblau story, insisting that the newspaper appeared to be timid in the face of the Bush administration's pressure tactics. Some Bush supporters, meanwhile, promptly took the opposite point of view and concluded that the Times had committed a traitorous act by publishing the stories. Considering that this sort of intense red-blue states warfare has been going on since (at least) the 2004 presidential campaigns, it wasn't a surprise that the Times' reporting would further polarize the nation. But that kind of parlor talk should be a secondary point today. For now, the Pulitzer selection committee deserves a big thumbs-up for getting it right this year.
(article excerpted from this point as it goes into other areas.)
So the covers have been pulled back re those who select the Pulizter prizes.
If the maggots lie about President Bush in the Wire Tapping/NSA story or the Katrina fiasco, that becomes Pulitzer Prize material.
Now this maggot is defending that bias as great reporting.
This should get your creative response juices flowing this morning.
fyi
Now we know how to become a Pulitzer prize liar er reporter.
Break national security laws and then lie about what was done. Bash Bush and get the NY Slimes to publish your creation, and shazam, a Pulitzer Prize is yours.
I guess for the sociopaths, lying, bashing bush, distorting the truth, not reporting the facts, gets them awards...so,why should they stop?
There are no repurcussions.
MarketWatch and CNNfn: Birds of a Feather.
Example:
How many Pulitzers do Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman have?
How many Pulitzers does Mark Steyn have?
QED!
I guess for the sociopaths, lying, bashing bush, distorting the truth, not reporting the facts, gets them awards...so,why should they stop?
There are no repurcussions.
The Pulitzers should be renamed the Politically Correct Awards.
The illuminati showing "discontent" is just further evidence that Bush is doing the right things.
I didn't see your addenum. :)
Thanks. Chair-to-keyboard interface problem!
fyi and ping lists.
To get a Pulizter Award, one has to be creative and print lies bashing President Bush.
I am quite sure that Pulitzers are always, always awarded to the best lies. If Walter Duranty can win one while covering up Stalin's murder of 7 to 13 million Ukrainians, what more needs to be said?
"I am quite sure that Pulitzers are always, always awarded to the best lies. If Walter Duranty can win one while covering up Stalin's murder of 7 to 13 million Ukrainians, what more needs to be said?"
Excellent! The Pulizter awards the liars and millions die!
We now know that the press was lying - flat-out, bald-faced lying - when they expressed concerns that the "outing" of Valerie Plame had compromised national security and that leaks which compromise national security are unconscionable. I repeat, they were lying, day in and day out. The Pulitzer prizes for the wiretapping story and the secret prison story prove without a doubt that the news media care not a whit for national security, about illegal leaks, or anything other than their own political agendas.
He also believes the press has the right to print stories (lies?) compromising national security and the safety of our troops at war. My contempt for these cretins is beyond description.
Anti President Bush Propaganda wins Pulitzer Prize!
Steve, thanks for the short summary of the massive lies and spins put out by the NY Slimes to bash President Bush since 2000.
Anything goes when it comes Bush Bashing. If the writers are creative enough in their Bush Bashing, they might win a Bush Bashing Pulitzer!
The Slimes is more anti American than the old Pravda ever was.
A real Pulitzer---named after Pulitzer himself---would go to the first "big media" outlet to do a story on the collapse of the MSM.
(Rocky Mountain) News wins 2 Pulitzers (Final Salute-Marines) ^
Please ping the above thread, which includes pictures, to your list so that others may see it and be as moved as I was.
The Gospel of Judas, is what some mean to be the gospel for our age. Not if I can help it. It has been said, that "treason never prospers." We need to do what we can to make that a reality. Hit the M$M where they hurt - in the wallet.
Actually, we and others have hitting the NY Slimes where it hurts re circulation drops and ad $ drops. That has ended up in massive drops in their Stock Value over the past two years. Below is the comparison of the NYT stock versus SPY, the S&P 500 in the past 2 years.
NY Slime stock owners should award the Putz Prize to the NY Slimes publisher, editors and hostile maggots pretending to be newspaper people.
Good for ED. My five year old grandson is in love with her and has been since he was 3.
"A real Pulitzer---named after Pulitzer himself---would go to the first "big media" outlet to do a story on the collapse of the MSM."
That honor will go to someone like you or Jeff Head.
Pulitzer Committee checking out Katrina stories.
Give that Pulitzer to Free Republic!
Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies
Newspaper sale$ decline should be blamed on the Journos
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People who work at journalism full time ought to be able to do a better job of it than people for whom it is a hobby. But that's not going to happen as long as we "professional" journalists ignore stories we don't like and try to hide our mistakes. We think of ourselves as "gatekeepers." But there is not much future in being a gatekeeper when the walls are down.
That inbred circular reasoning will be the ultimate end to the MSM as we know them. Inbred arrogance destroys a lot of organizations. Today's market place has zero tolerance for the behavior of the NY Slimes execs down to their liars, er so called reporters.
Something about the wealth of the evil being laid up for the righteous?
Thanks for posting that great list.
Do you have a key word or a suggestion for one that we can use in future threads and add to threads posted.
Then you and others can find these threads by just entering the key word or clicking it at the bottom of each thread.
Thanks.
With the MSI action against the Slimes and the other problems they are having this year, I keep getting the image of Pinch and his gay editors rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, er NY Slimes.
Biglook has a great photo he uses to show this point.
The Nobel Peace Prizes and the UN commissions on Human Rights went to Terrorists, so why not have the Pulitzers join the mess ?
Three more examples of how liberal PCism kills innocents and wins prizes from the lunatic libs.
Thanks for posting that great list.
Do you have a key word or a suggestion for one that we can use in future threads and add to threads posted.
Then you and others can find these threads by just entering the key word or clicking it at the bottom of each thread.
Thanks.
Good idea. Both keyword=msm and abb seem to return at least a partial superset of those stories. Probably too many stories. Careful readers may notice an overarching story to my linked headlines.
Coupled with seemingly accelerating bad news we also see a most intriguing coda:
Perhaps your kind wake-up call to me for less detail indicates a need for an executive summary that tells the overarching story using embedded keywords on each bullet point. :)
How about MSMWOES a keyword.
If we restricted it to financial woes, circulation woes and stock market woes, it would be a great key word.
I wasn't sending a wake up call, I never fully wake up until 10 am Pacific Time.
Ernest at the Beach, when I first started posting on FR taught me the importance of key words to indexing important stories.
You have done a great job of indexing these threads/stories. I just don't have skills nor patience to do that job. So I like the to find key words to use.
So what do you think of MSM Woes as a short key word?
PS: ABB has done a great job finding and posting these stories of MSM Woes. When I wake up in California and stumble into my office to start my computer, ABB has been working at least 3 hours posting these great articles of MSM Woes.
Wasn't great that the Pulizters were bought out!
Now the company that bought them out is having severe financial problems. When one buys a turkey vulture, it will never become a beautiful turkey.
Now that I said that ............ Katherine, take just a little off please........... and where's the picture of you on that lovely horse????
;-)
Point taken. (Unless I misunderstand your point. :) ) Perhaps my passion to return journalism to its freewheeling days of the 1700s makes me appear envious. LOL. OTOH my gate/gatekeeper metaphor makes me feel like a genuine Central Valley Christian Zionist while capturing the change of biblical proportions now taking place in the centuries old newsprint business IMHO. Probably too much information. ROTFL.
Thanks for the update on the St. Louis Post, didn't realize they were in financial difficulties. Hope there is not a buy-back provision.
Don't live in STL any longer, but will always be a CARDNIAL FAN.
Hoping this turkey gets its goose cooked.
Spatula? Nah, Mason's trowel..............(ducking for cover)........
Lee Enterprises bought them out last year. Now Lee is having a lot of financial problems as the buyout is not bringing in big bucks.
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