Enquirer falls short of Pulitzer glory
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The National Enquirer’s Pulitzer hopes materialized out of the blue and vanished just as quickly.
I was certainly surprised this morning when I turned on the telly and learned that the gossip tab was up for not one but two Pulitzer Prizes, for uncovering how John Edwards got a leg-over on a campaign aide and knocked her up.
Its chances of winning were discounted by talking heads as virtually nil, but still I’m sure serious journos were clucking their disapproval in newsrooms across the continent and overseas. Sure enough, it went 0-for-2 in the battle for the hardware.
As much as I’d like to be a contrarian here, I must side with rag’s humourless critics. It deserves a Pulitzer as much as Donald Rumsfeld deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Pulitzers are, after all, supposed to be for work that “adheres to the highest journalistic principles.” While the gossip source did “scoop” other outlets on the Edwards affair, I’m sure high journalistic principles were never foremost on its reporters’ minds. Or on their minds at all, for that matter.
Not that the Enquirer isn’t deserving of some sort of award. Surely there must be some lofty prizes for which its “Best and Worst Beach Bodies” and never-ending Oprah-and-Stedman coverage qualify.
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Race to the bottom?? LOL Can u imagine the Pulitzer qualifiers/judges sitting with that entry before them? omFg. I have a friend who used to be a section editor for a Gore pub down this o way who said,
“I just can’t imagine…”
I don’t know if y’all are aware, but when you’re ‘running the news’ (you are a paid employee of a news source) … you eventually keep very strange company. But when a large story is breaking the sharks gather and generally split into groups… down in this neck of the news-woods it’s telling to watch the Enquirer folk and their stringers huddle up with guess what news source?? If you don’t know, you never will… LMFAO
My great fear is that the mainstream media, in an effort to compete with these lunatics/scum-suckers, will continue to lower THEIR standards. It’s all about a race to the bottom now (getting it first, as opposed to getting it right), folks. Unfortunately.
Mike, Elvis is dead but David Koresh and Tim McVeigh live on.
Well shit Vigil. That sucks..I just saw that on the RM show.
No wait! You mean that Elvis might really be dead? Oh no! Anything but that. Great post Stimpson 🙂
There must a journalistic awards equivalent for bad journalism, like “Rotten Tomatoes” is for bad movies. If not there should be. Maybe “Waste of Ink” could be the one.
Stimpson,
My teabagger coworkers continually harp on the Liberal Media. I’ve yet to find any traces of this mythical beast in any major newspapers. I haven’t ever read the Enquirer-are they the long sought after Liberal Media? Has my quest finally ended?
You’ve never read the Enquirer? Good golly, you don’t know what you’re missing!!!
Er … not much actually.
Sorry, you’ll have to look elsewhere for that Librul Meedia. If you ever find it, let us know.