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Pulitzer outrage
Washington Times ^ | 23 Apr 09 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/23/2009 5:15:02 AM PDT by PurpleMan

Retired military analysts are reacting with outrage that the Pulitzer committee awarded one of its prestigious prizes for a story discredited by an independent investigation, special correspondent Rowan Scarborough reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agitprop; davidbarstow; deptofdefense; dod; ivorytower; jasonblairsyndrome; pentagon; propaganda; pulitzer; pulitzerprize; retiredmilitary; rumsfeld; waronerror
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The Pulitzers should be renamed "The Jason Blairs" or "The Janet Cookes"
1 posted on 04/23/2009 5:15:02 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

“The Jason Blairs”.,..from now on....


2 posted on 04/23/2009 5:18:15 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: PurpleMan

Why the surprise? The NYT still hangs the Pulitzer on its wall that it “won” for covering up Stalin’s starvation mass-murder of the Ukrainians.

They have never changed.


3 posted on 04/23/2009 5:20:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: PurpleMan
Why outrage? These awards are all political now. They give them out to people who write about the fantasies they wish were actually true.
4 posted on 04/23/2009 5:25:05 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: PurpleMan

Why not just call it the “PUTZ PRIZE”?


5 posted on 04/23/2009 5:26:00 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: Doogle

More like “The Linda Blairs”.

Every time I hear who they gave them to, my head spins round in circles, and I want to puke.


6 posted on 04/23/2009 5:27:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: PurpleMan
We need to deemphasize the Nobel prize and the Pulitzer prize as they are both so political and do not represent genius or impartiality, if they ever did.
7 posted on 04/23/2009 5:30:34 AM PDT by truemiester ((If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years))
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To: truemiester

De emphasize? We need to start laughing every time we hear either award mentioned. I don’t mean polite titters, I mean outright belly laugh. Make people embarrassed to admit they were even nominated for one.


8 posted on 04/23/2009 5:37:21 AM PDT by McGavin999 (How's that change old Hopey Dope promised you working out?)
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To: PurpleMan

A prize by libtards, of libtards, and for libtards,

Yawn...


9 posted on 04/23/2009 5:37:27 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: PurpleMan

Yep. They deal in falsehoods; so why is anyone surprised?


10 posted on 04/23/2009 5:38:07 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: McGavin999

Oh, now hold on just a minute there! Rush was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. ;^)


11 posted on 04/23/2009 5:39:58 AM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: PurpleMan

Be patient. NYT Co. is headed toward penny stock status, and this time next year you’ll probably be able to find Putz Sulzberger’s pulitzers on a yard sale table somewhere on Long Island.


12 posted on 04/23/2009 5:43:19 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: McGavin999

You are absolutly right of course.

You “won” what? A pulitzer? Who was you compitition Elmo?


13 posted on 04/23/2009 5:47:49 AM PDT by truemiester ((If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years))
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To: PurpleMan

Nothing but a bunch of liberals patting themselves on the back. Who cares!!!!


14 posted on 04/23/2009 5:49:18 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: PurpleMan

It’s the primary target or political objective that is of greatest importance, not the accuracy or truthfulness of the story.


15 posted on 04/23/2009 5:53:51 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: PurpleMan

The Pulitzer Prize has been devalued by politics to a point where it is today the journalistic equivalent of a Grammy Award.


16 posted on 04/23/2009 5:56:00 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: BilLies

It should be renamed, “The Lefty” award.


17 posted on 04/23/2009 5:57:53 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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NYT Co. is headed toward penny stock status

And? This "administration" will declare their function "a public service" and give them your tax dollars to continue.

18 posted on 04/23/2009 5:59:32 AM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat! Or one with a brain.)
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To: PurpleMan
for a story discredited by an independent investigation

When are all these upper-crusters going to realize these ‘prestigious awards’ are really nothing more than popularity contests at the intellectual masterbater's club?

19 posted on 04/23/2009 6:07:11 AM PDT by MamaTexan (~ The People of the several States are not 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States ~)
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To: ontap

“Who cares!!!!”

You should because if you don’t discredit them they will remain credible to millions how think they are (and will continue to vote for BHO)


20 posted on 04/23/2009 6:37:56 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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