Looks like the Oscars of reporting, mostly awarded to mainstream mouthpieces, ignoring any journalism of real depth that challenges anything outside the overton window.
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026
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#22Looks like the Oscars of reporting, mostly awarded to mainstream mouthpieces, ignoring any journalism of real depth that challenges anything outside the overton window.
Who do you think would be deserving of an outside-the-window Pulitzer?
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#23I’ve been gradually reading prior Pulitzer winners for fiction and I have to say I haven’t hit a bad one yet. Maybe I’ll try and read this years before it’s several decades old.
i used to read all booker prize nominations and winners. Those were the only fiction i would read.
I feel like all the oganizations have some of directive now to pick social justice theme books. I have no problem with it but i dont want to read books picked with a specific agenda.
> Drama > Liberation, by Bess Wohl explores the legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s
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#24Pablo Torre and Julie K. Brown are the only truly deserving winners here. Anyone willing to break down and discuss the Epstein case is a real journalist and both of them have done exactly that. The Times and other major outlets were reticent to cover it, and have since routinely run puff pieces. Riley Walz and the folks at Jmail deserve a lot of credit as well.
Aaron Parsley's account of the Kerrville flood in Texas Monthly is deserving. A waterline-level personal account that makes a disaster real. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...
> A waterline-level personal account that makes a disaster real
... when Baby Jessica fell to the well & she really suffered and her parents must have been incredibly miserable, she got more CNN coverage than Rwanda and Darfur, right? And the question is, why does this happen and why do people care so much? And it turns out, there's research on what's called the "identifiable victim effect."
... you would expect it as more lives are at stake, we would care more, maybe in a linear relationship. Or, maybe we would care more in the beginning & there'll be kind of a diminishing return ... But it turns out, the function is different: We care a lot about individual life and care less and less as the pie... as the number of people become bigger.
... Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." And Mother Theresa said in the same spirit, "If I look at the masses, I will never act; if I look at the one, I will." ... It turns out that every time you activate cognition, calculation, thoughtfulness, you turn off the emotion — people care less and give much less.
Dan Ariely (who unironically isn't moved by plight of the Palestinians) also discusses this in the introduction of his book, The Upside of Irrationality.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ryan Grim
He's led Pulitzer-nominated teams before. Not sure this would be the Overton-shifting event you're thinking it would be.
What does the past have to do with it? Have you paid attention to his recent work? He's reporting on things that virtually no one else is, e.g. leaks of calls between Ehud Barak and Eptsein as well as Israeli government involvement in wiring Epstein's residence in New York with cameras.
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#28Wow! So much hard work done by these journalists, pursuing truth, facing the pressures of capitalism, and oligarchy in US.
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#29I’ve been gradually reading prior Pulitzer winners for fiction and I have to say I haven’t hit a bad one yet. Maybe I’ll try and read this years before it’s several decades old.
i used to read all booker prize nominations and winners. Those were the only fiction i would read. I feel like all the oganizations have some of directive now to pick social justice theme books. I have no problem with it but i dont want to read books picked with a specific agenda. > Drama > Liberation, by Bess Wohl explores the legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s
To be honest, I don't think I've ever found Booker Prize Winners that satisfying, for exactly the same reason you put your finger on. Pulitzer's however...!
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's led Pulitzer-nominated teams before. Not sure this would be the Overton-shifting event you're thinking it would be.
What does the past have to do with it? Have you paid attention to his recent work? He's reporting on things that virtually no one else is, e.g. leaks of calls between Ehud Barak and Eptsein as well as Israeli government involvement in wiring Epstein's residence in New York with cameras.
Not to disparage Ryan Grim at all. That's fabulous work. And grimly fascinating, because it means that Israel may have horrifying kompromat on active senior politicians. And the insights into the horrors of Israeli political sausage getting made pretty much confirms what was obvious already, but it's really nice to see a first-hand account. I get it.
But given a choice between a 20 year old spy thriller involving a Prime Minister who retired 25 years ago, and a dead man, versus a revealing exposure of the dystopia we are all going to be living in imminently (whether Chinese or American), I think the balance tips toward the current winners.
A good choice though. Maybe next year.