John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN PRESS T V
“Russia decries Pulitzer Prize board for awarding anti-Moscow articles”
The Russian Embassy in the United States has rebuked the Pulitzer Prize Board for awarding [a series of] articles that contained allegations that have been repeatedly dismissed by Moscow as fake.
Imagine a prize board using words like “predations of the Vladimir Putin regime,” words which they used on the award for this series on Russia?
The citation reads as if it were written in a basement office at Langley, Virginia, instead of at Columbia University.
The Pulitzer Prize in fact has a history of poor quality and even shabbiness. So much so, I long ago stopped regarding it as a real distinction.
A few times, prizes in journalism actually were awarded to Americans who had faked their stories entirely or in part.
The Pulitzers for books often have overlooked excellence and been awarded to mediocrity. It seemed to me that the subject or orientation of the book often mattered, as having a certain view of American history.
Second rate for sure.
