Washington Post Erik Wemple, media critic, was outraged. To review and approve the controversial 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service award, two organizations were set up by The Pulitzer Prize Committee. The New York Times The Washington Post for covering the Russian “collusion” investigation. Trump, his staunchest media followers have mocked the prize repeatedly.
Wemple asked “What were they thinking?” His headline was “The Pulitzers’ Trump trap is every media outlet’s Trump trap.” Wemple colorfully complained it “amounts to lunatic-appeasement of the high-maintenance sort.”
It is possible that there are other conservatives than Trump who don’t question the Pulitzer hype. You can understand where these prize peddlers would double down and say there’s nothing in these collusion-porn stories that is “fake.” But in the end, the overarching conspiracy theory – that the Trump campaign and the Russians colluded to defeat Hillary Clinton – turned out to be false.
Pulitzer Liberals did not award any prizes The New York TimesReporting stories about the claim that Saddam Hussein was a terrorist with weapons of mass destruction These are the Times probably didn’t apply for it. However, the overall theory was false.
The Pulitzer gang insisted “no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.” This omits that the TimesThe most popular stories were submitted and the worst ones were trimmed.
One of the stories in this 2018 Pulitzer pile is all about the FBI and Christopher Steele’s dossier. Although Trump called it fake, the FBI considered him to be credible. Erik Wemple devoted a whole series of articles to how reporters butchered the truth by promoting Steele’s hackneyed work. So it’s weird he would get upset that anyone else would revisit the record.
The Pulitzer organizers their judges are an incestuous band of liberals that define the best “journalism” as reporting that helps the Left win. They’ve given hundreds of prizes to The New York Times and The Washington PostBut you might try to win a prize. The Washington TimesOr the New York Post.
It’s incestuous enough that The Washington PostCarlos Lozada was the nonfiction book critic and winner of a prize given by a jury. The Washington Post. Isn’t that convenient?
Although they awarded a lot of Pulitzers for reporting about Trump’s administration, the Clinton administration received only one Pulitzer Prize. It was 1999 when the Nobel Prize went to Impeachment. The New York Times.
The Pulitzer gang wasn’t alone in their passion for rewarding the promotion of collusion. In 2017, the George Polk Awards handed out a “Special Award” to “Staffs of The New York Times The Washington Post, for revealing ties between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-connected Russians that gave rise to the investigation into possible collusion during the 2016 election.”
In 2019, the Peabody Awards gave an “Institutional Award” to the PBS series Frontline. It was the latest of 20 Peabody Awards given to these leftist documentary makers, who offered several programs to the Mueller probe and “Trump’s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice.”
Wemple must know that many Americans think all the gears of America’s news machine work in harmony. Liberal journalists that hate Trump are subject to leaks by Adam Schiff and other Democrats. These Democrat-pleasing articles then receive prizes such as the Best of Journalism. It is more likely that this collusion theory exists.
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