'40 Bodies In Freezer' Paper Wins Pulitzer

Sweetness & Light ^ | April 17, 2006 | N/A

[MissEdie]

Think their new moto should be "News that's Fit to Invent", how about you?

[Gordongekko909]

Hey, hey, HEY! I will not sit by silently while you impugn the Times-Picayune! The Times has been wrapping seafood in New Orleans-area seafood markets for decades, and will continue to do so for years to come! Its paper has excllent tensile strength, and doesn't fall apart when it gets wet!

That, and the sports section is generally reliable!

[magslinger]

I must be gettin old..... I remember when winning a Pulitzer meant something.

Has the Pewlitzer been cheapened or is it that we know a lot more that the MSM don't want us to know because of the Internet?

[abb]

I'm reliably told that the TP's advertising revenue issue is "challenging" to use a quaint euphemism that was used earlier. They've got a long way to go to get back to profitability....

[Anti-Bubba182]

It is predictable that the Times-Picayune would get a Pulitzer
as an expression of sympathy masquerading as an award for excellence.

[sgtbono2002]

Giving the Pulitzer to these guys is a bit like giving the Academy Award to the Brokeback Mounting. It doesnt mean a thing any more , just political BS by those handing it out.

[Borges]

Except BM didn't get the Academy Award...

[sgtbono2002]

I guess that shows you how much I care. It was up for it wasnt it.?

Academy awards, Pulitzers, Nobel Peace prizes. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[Grampa Dave]

I like your comment. So we can say the Pulitzer Prize is now the Brokeback Prize in creative fiction posing as news.

[OKIEDOC]

The Pulitzer Prize is nothing but a bunch of Main Stream Media liberals self congratulating left wing news organizations.

How can a media whore like the Jayson Blair New York Times win any kind of award when their reporting is mostly fake but accurate.

The Pulitzer may be big to some but it and $1.59 will get you a cup of coffee at Star Butts.

[Borges]

No it lost to Crash. Best Picture winners on the whole are far less offensive then you may think. The old fashioned films tend to win most of the time.

[xcamel]

Pulitzer ??

Putzer prize is more like it

[abb]

Here ya go, Dave. The trend is your friend...

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/tm.site/news/Earnings%20Estimate%20Change/223563/

[Txsleuth]

Looks like the Pulitzer has about as much credibility as the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Mike Darancette]

I think it was NOLA that was the good guy.

[Mo1]

They can win prizes ... but it won't make their subscriptions go up

Why .. because people are sick of the lies that are printed

[Sam Hill]

Here's another one from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters of the T-P:

"In St. Bernard, 22 bodies were found lashed together. Officials surmised the drowning victims had tried to stay together to keep themselves from being washed away in the storm."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10167.htm

Never mind that this too was completely untrue:

Good journalists keep digging till they unearth the truth | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

"Immediately after the hurricane a story was widely published quoting St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stevens, who said 22 people had been found dead near Violet, La., lashed together by a single rope. In November a Knight Ridder reporter established that the claim was completely untrue."

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/5445117p-4915990c.html

I never saw the Times-Picayune retract this lie either.

Instead it got plastered all over the media. Most people probably believe it was true.

[Sam Hill]

But imagine how burned Shemp Smith and this guy must feel:

[Txsleuth]

I gotta tell you....I saw Shep reporting about this...and he was almost as excited as he was while standing on the freeway screaming for help....pffffft

[Mo1]

Instead it got plastered all over the media. Most people probably believe it was true.

Katrina is up there with Iraq on the worse reporting ever