Posted on 04/15/2019 12:36:34 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
I think I'm going to be ill.
I just sat through the live announcement of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners and I have never in my life seen such a vindication of everything we believe about the contemporary mainstream media.
First was an agonizing prelude of quotations and videos praising our liberal journalist "friends" for about ten or fifteen minutes (apparently non-liberal journalists don't count as journalists--the hypocrites!). At least it felt like fifteen minutes. Then came the prizes themselves.
They literally hit on every left wing trope in existence. They bestrode the entire left wing spectrum from one end to the other: bashing Trump, invoking gun control, etc., etc., etc. I even heard the claim that the press is "authorized by the Constitution?"(???)
These people obviously have no idea what kind of press existed at the time of the Founding: totally partisan and without any claims of "objectivivity" (as well as there being no information cartels at the time).
They sure played up the necessity of an "adversarial" press. I wonder where they were from 2009 to 2017?
I don't think I've ever been more disgusted in my life. These people may as well have worn little pyramids with "Illuminati" printed on them (or maybe "Lucis Trust"). But there is one bit of good news: if they weren't feeling the hits, they wouldn't be squealing! Let's hope they have nothing but stuff to squeal about for some time to come!
NOTE: The list of winners has not been posted as of yet, but should be up soon. For real masochists, you can probably see the announcement video on YouTube.
I don't know why they just didn't go ahead and award another one posthumously to Walter Duranty.
MEH; just a bunch of assholes giving each other another “ALSO PARTICIPATED” award.
Just like a Kindergarten teacher giving a gold star for being there.
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