2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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.

Re: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Post by danso » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:46 PM UTC

Great to see the South Florida Sun-Sentinel win its second Public Service [0] award (considered the most prestigious of the journalism Pulitzers). Its first Public Service award -- a 2013 investigation of speeding cops [1] -- is still one of my favorite examples of database-driven journalism; a combination of clever public records requests for metadata, and math, to prove something that technically didn't exist (i.e. cops are usually the deciders of who is speeding).

Its 2019 series about failures by school and police in the Parkland school shooting is also excellent. It also features among its public records work an milestone fuckup by officials in terms of PDF non-redaction [2].

[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/204

[1] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/sun-sentinel

[2] https://www.cjr.org/local_news/redaction-sun-sentinel.php

Re: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Post by GavinMcG » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #5

mring33621 wrote: post #3

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.

No, you really don't. Debunking "claims of self-made wealth and reveal[ing] a business empire riddled with tax dodges" isn't anti-Trump. Neither is "uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign". That's just the normal job of investigative journalism, and those make up all of two out of fifteen categories.

Re: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

mring33621 wrote: post #3

Supposedly "Enemies of the People"

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Re: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Post by danso » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:51 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #5

mring33621 wrote: post #3

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.

Which of the two award-winners that explicitly feature Trump do you feel is unfairly rewarded?

Re: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Post by an_d_rew » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:52 PM UTC

GavinMcG wrote: post #7

commandlinefan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, you really don't. Debunking "claims of self-made wealth and reveal[ing] a business empire riddled with tax dodges" isn't anti-Trump. Neither is "uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign". That's just the normal job of investigative journalism, and those make up all of two out of fifteen categories.

Plus, they are reporting on, like, you know... the President of the United States.

Those kind of shenanigans are kind-of a big deal, by definition.