Is swearing, especially saying "fuck you", usual way to congratulate someone in US?
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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
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Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#52Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.) Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not pretend that the Pulitzer matters.
I think your point is that awards are overrated.
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#53Is swearing, especially saying "fuck you", usual way to congratulate someone in US?
It's conveying jealousy / flattery in the context of that text message.
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
To play devil's advocate, an intern with a Pulitzer (or similarly prestigious award) on their resume is going to have a lot of job opportunities.
You’d be surprised how dire the situation is in most newsrooms, and how petty the competition is.
Its not just newsrooms. Many teams allow internal politiking to take precedence over working together. As a result, they're at war with themselves _and_ trying to compete in the market for customers.
As you might imagine, teams which do not have this conflict have substantially more time to focus on their customers.
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#55Interestingly it is very difficult to figure out what the story she reported on is about given all the hoopla around a Latina winning the Pulitzer.
Note that the linked story is _about_ the fact that a female philipino undergrad won a Pulitzer, but does not explain much about about the story she reported on that won a Pulitzer
I'm not arguing that she shouldn't have won a Pulitzer for her reporting if her reporting were genuinely worthy of a Pulitzer (it wasn't, but that's another story,) but... srsly?
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#56Journalism - real journalism, not blogging - matters. I've been thinking of buying a newspaper subscription again because I feel that even though newspapers typically lag 24 hours or so behind what you can read online someone needs to keep these people employed so they can do there very necessary jobs. I don't think it is possible to have anything resembling a democracy in the modern age without a free press.
The problem is that most newspaper are mostly total crap and a good article once in a while. There would need to be some sort of model where you pay regularly to keep a whole team of people employed.
That's fine. The crap makes money to fund the good bits. Just need to someone to curate the good bits.
For example, WaPo is funded by scads of anti-Trump gossip shared all over social media, but has occasiobal real investigate news.
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#57Journalism - real journalism, not blogging - matters. I've been thinking of buying a newspaper subscription again because I feel that even though newspapers typically lag 24 hours or so behind what you can read online someone needs to keep these people employed so they can do there very necessary jobs. I don't think it is possible to have anything resembling a democracy in the modern age without a free press.
Blogging and tweeting (and podcasting, and Facebook Liveing, er c) are also Real Journalism.
The medium is not the message, in this case. Content matters, not format.
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#58That story was absolutely amazing. The most shocking part of it to me was that there is an organized effort to ban cops from carrying Naxalone, because some people actually believe that heroin addicts deserve to die...
We live in a sick world...
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#59Is swearing, especially saying "fuck you", usual way to congratulate someone in US?
They’re basically just expressing envy. You wouldn’t say that to a work colleague but a close friend sure.
Re: A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
#60That is both super amazing and uniquely hard to imagine experiencing. It has to be surreal, in a journalism class, learning you've won Journalism's highest honor. I thought it also interesting that the students were more concerned that they would get in trouble for using a phone in class than with the import of the event. I don't think she will have much difficulty finding a job after she graduates with that on her r…
I guess the reason that this is possible in a field like journalism is because it's no theory-light in comparison to a theory-heavy discipline like CS. The extreme of theory-lightness would be something like swimming where Michael Phelps can break a world record at 15.
Not really. Pulitzer is for one piece of good work. Bill Gates proved a pancake theorem in college. Many Thiel fellows are under 21 doing award winning work in sciences. Jacob Lurie won the Westinghouse/Intel talent search in high school with professional quality mathematician work.
Lots college kids win startup hackathon awards, akin to the Pulitzer. The Pulitzer doesn't honor the best work or the greatest achievements, just a sampling of great work.