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A Pulitzer Prize Was Just Given To The 1619 Essay The New York Times Admitted Was Historically Inaccurate
The Federalist ^ | MAY 4, 2020 | Emily Jashinsky

Posted on 05/04/2020 5:46:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for an essay the New York Times corrected substantially after an array of respected academics disputed its grasp on history. That means the Pulitzers bizarrely rewarded inaccurate journalism with journalism’s highest prize.

That Hannah-Jones’s article advanced historical inaccuracies is not a matter of opinion, it was a determination made by her own publication. Tacked onto the piece, which was an introductory article to the Times Magazine’s controversial 1619 Project, is a 36-word Editor’s Note stating, “A passage has been adjusted to make clear that a desire to protect slavery was among the motivations of some of the colonists who fought the Revolutionary War, not among the motivations of all of them.”

That note links to a 500-word “update” from the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jake Silverstein, who concedes, “We recognize that our original language could be read to suggest that protecting slavery was a primary motivation for all of the colonists. The passage has been changed to make clear that this was a primary motivation for some of the colonists.”

This two-word change is actually an admission of substantial error. (Read why here.) It was also added a long seven months after the article’s publication—during which schools were encouraged to use materials from the project as curriculum—following criticism from a wide variety of prominent historians. Five of those historians, including James McPherson of Princeton and Gordon Wood of Brown, penned a letter to the Times identifying the project’s errors. Here’s how they addressed Hannah-Jones’s essay:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1619project; literature; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nikolehannahjones; pulitzer; pulitzerprize; race; the1619project
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1 posted on 05/04/2020 5:46:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They can put it next to their Stalin hagiography.


2 posted on 05/04/2020 5:48:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (BOYCOTT CHINA! - spread the word .... (China is the Sick Man of Asia with a very small penis))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Liberals don’t care what the truth is unless they agree with it.


3 posted on 05/04/2020 5:48:35 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They must really hate America to write that garbage.


4 posted on 05/04/2020 5:53:38 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nearly 70 years ago, The Columbus Georgia Ledger-Enquirer won a Pulitzer for it’s reporting on crime in Phenix City, Alabama.

The stories eventually led to the cleanup of Phenix City but not without loss of life.

They should be ashamed of themselves for this fraud.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 5:54:02 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So now the Pulizer prize has joined the Nobel prize in irrelevance.


6 posted on 05/04/2020 5:55:08 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


7 posted on 05/04/2020 6:02:19 PM PDT by Fungi
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The Pulitzer prize has always been about make-believe. It's very origin was because Pulitzer gained notoriety for stirring up the public to demand we go to war with Spain. Why? Because Pulitzer falsely convinced the public that Spain-controlled Cuba had blown up the USS Maine.

It was never about accuracy. It was always about fictional activism.

8 posted on 05/04/2020 6:04:43 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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The Pulitzer Prize has been suspect for years. Everybody on the juries takes their lead from the Times and the Post and is in awe of them, so those papers get the prizes.
9 posted on 05/04/2020 6:12:44 PM PDT by x
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Since when has the Pulitzer meant anything outside of the Club of the Left? It is an in house award for Marxist propaganda.


10 posted on 05/04/2020 6:14:02 PM PDT by arthurus (y)
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“The New York Times Admitted Was Historically Inaccurate”

A feature, not a bug.


11 posted on 05/04/2020 6:18:23 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pulitzer Prize is utterly meaningless to 99% of Americans.


12 posted on 05/04/2020 6:20:53 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m sick of these East coast America hating socialists.


13 posted on 05/04/2020 6:21:34 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Pulitzer is a PUTZ!


14 posted on 05/04/2020 6:35:05 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: crusher2013

Nikole Hannah-Jones

15 posted on 05/04/2020 6:44:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does this mean that the New York Times began life as an ancestor to the Babylon Bee?


16 posted on 05/04/2020 6:49:07 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.))
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As the NYT has admitted this report is not accurate, why isn’t it classified ass fictional.


17 posted on 05/04/2020 6:51:15 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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The Pulitzer Prizes 'Statement on Walter Duranty's 1932 Prize'

After more than six months of study and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize Board has decided it will not revoke the foreign reporting prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times.

In recent months, much attention has been paid to Mr. Duranty's dispatches regarding the famine in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933, which have been criticized as gravely defective. However, a Pulitzer Prize for reporting is awarded not for the author's body of work or for the author's character but for the specific pieces entered in the competition. Therefore, the board focused its attention on the 13 articles that actually won the prize, articles written and published during 1931. [A complete list of the articles, with dates and headlines, is below.]

In its review of the 13 articles, the Board determined that Mr. Duranty's 1931 work, measured by today's standards for foreign reporting, falls seriously short. In that regard, the Board's view is similar to that of The New York Times itself and of some scholars who have examined his 1931 reports. However, the board concluded that there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this case. Revoking a prize 71 years after it was awarded under different circumstances, when all principals are dead and unable to respond, would be a momentous step and therefore would have to rise to that threshold.

The famine of 1932-1933 was horrific and has not received the international attention it deserves. By its decision, the board in no way wishes to diminish the gravity of that loss. The Board extends its sympathy to Ukrainians and others in the United States and throughout the world who still mourn the suffering and deaths brought on by Josef Stalin.

Walter Duranty's 13 articles in 1931 submitted for 1932 Pulitzer Prize

Eleven-part series in The New York Times

Two articles in The New York Times magazine


18 posted on 05/04/2020 8:37:50 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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There is a Pulitzer Prize for fiction


19 posted on 05/04/2020 8:59:06 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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20 posted on 05/05/2020 6:21:12 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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