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was hoping to get some awarness about a new cause/topic but this just whats in news cycle everyday.
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Well, he is the president.
I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
And I'm on mobile now but I'm sure they were awarded for some things having to do with the Iraq War.
If presidents commit crimes, that's highly notable (and a big deal).
I'm a little surprised that Miami Herald isn't on the list for their Epstein reporting, maybe they're not eligible until next year.
I came across this open letter from Alan Dershowitz, lobbying against their Pulitzer consideration[1]. I haven't seen a public response from either the reporter or the Miami Herald, so I'm curious about their views of the points he brings up. To be clear, I'm not saying he is accurate. I just don't know enough either way. He's obviously an interested party to the whole story. [1] https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14…
Supposedly "Enemies of the People"
I don't know - love him or hate him, you have to agree this is a pretty anti-Trump list. Whether he's actually corrupt or not, this is evidence that the media is stacked against him - history will show if they were right or not.
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I came across this open letter from Alan Dershowitz, lobbying against their Pulitzer consideration[1]. I haven't seen a public response from either the reporter or the Miami Herald, so I'm curious about their views of the points he brings up. To be clear, I'm not saying he is accurate. I just don't know enough either way. He's obviously an interested party to the whole story. [1] https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14…
Do you think we should trust his narrative? I remember watching the disingenuous way he debated Chomsky on Israel/Palestine and thinking that he was totally sleazy [1] https://youtu.be/3ux4JU_sbB0
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Well, he is the president.
I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
The Obama presidency wasn't completely scandal-free, but there wasn't much opportunity for Pulitzer level investigative reporting against him specifically.
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I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
Keep in mind that 8 of the last 20 years were the historically scandal-free Obama presidency. See eg. https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/atd-I... The Obama presidency wasn't completely scandal-free, but there wasn't much opportunity for Pulitzer level investigative reporting against him specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_articles_about_the_Depart...
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I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
Keep in mind that 8 of the last 20 years were the historically scandal-free Obama presidency. See eg. https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/atd-I... The Obama presidency wasn't completely scandal-free, but there wasn't much opportunity for Pulitzer level investigative reporting against him specifically.
It's more about a press corps that let Obama get away with things they would have never given somebody like Trump a pass for.
For example, look at the press reaction to Obama refusing to prosecute CIA torture vs. Trump nominating one of the career officials Obama previously gave a pass to to head up the CIA.
Likewise, I doubt we would give Trump a pass for attempting to move due process free prisons like Gitmo onto American soil.
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Do you think we should trust his narrative? I remember watching the disingenuous way he debated Chomsky on Israel/Palestine and thinking that he was totally sleazy [1] https://youtu.be/3ux4JU_sbB0
I am not sure. Like you, I have seen him engage in disingenuous methods of debating. However, it does seem he offered 'hard' proof to corroborate his story, which is why I'm curious to see how the Herald would respond. It seems we'll find out more about the Epstein affair as there are renewed pushes to investigate what happened in the plea deal.
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Well, he is the president.
I honestly don't follow pulitzer prizes, but sampling a few recent years (in the past 20), I can't find any where there was ANY award for investigation against a president (there was one for investigation against Dick Cheney in 2008). Has this ever happened before?
If you expand the scope of "investigation against a president" to include the actions of his administration, then you'll find more examples:
1987 National Reporting Award for the Miami Herald's reporting on Iran-Contra (Bob Woodward of the WaPo was also a finalist on the same topic in this category) [2]
2011 Editorial Writing to the WSJ for its editorials challenging Obamacare [3]
2014 Public Service Award to The Guardian and the WaPo for the Snowden revelations [4]
[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/photo-staff-0
[1] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/maureen-dowd
[2] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-21
