I’m very happy to see this:
Times reporter David Barstow won the Investigative prize for his report on the relationship between the Pentagon and TV military analysts.
Yeah, Jon Mecham won one this year too and Tom Friedman has won a total of three in his career, so the award is a bit of a joke. But it’s good to see Barstow’s important — and widely ignored within the mainstream media — work get its due.
mlk
Also congrats to Eugene Robinson on his win as well.
geg6
I love that Barstow won. And I am tickled to see that Eugene Robinson won for commentary. I have a little bit of a crush on Gene. He has a foxy twinkle in his eye that I find hot. And he always laughs at the teabagging jokes, unconcerned that people might not think he’s “serious” because of it.
valdivia
Me too, that was a fantastic series.
Eugene Robinson won for commentary which is good. The only sane person on the WaPo line up (except for Dionne)
Joshua Norton
I notice that despite all the pimping Brian Williams did for her, Peggy Noonan is once again Pulitzer prizeless.
DougJ
I’m not incredibly keen on him, but he’s one of the best of a bad lot.
Dennis-SGMM
@Joshua Norton:
Sometimes you need to just keep walking.
Incertus
It’s a good choice.
Now if only they’d nominated someone interesting in poetry this year. Merwin? Bidart? Ruth Stone’s New and Selected? Bah.
Zifnab
Yes, but if you look at what he won them for, the Pulitzer gets a bit of its luster back. Friedman wasn’t yammering on about how the world is flat and cell phones are magic when he picked up awards for covering the Sabra and Shatila massacre or the First Palestinian Intifada.
And Meacham picked up his Pultizer for writing about Andrew Jackson. That’s about as far as you can get from his commentary on current events.
I wouldn’t piss on the Pultizer too hard.
JK
Bummer about that smarmy sycophant Jon Meacham. Next time he appears with Charlie Rose, Rose will drool even more profusely over him
Kudos to David Barstow, Eugene Robinson and Holland Cotter.
Napoleon
@valdivia:
And Myerson
DougJ
Yeah, I know. But I’ve got the sneaking suspicion that he was just repeating things his cab driver told him about the events.
Balconesfault
Can we give an “anti-Pulitzer” to the talking heads at all the major news networks who who went to extraordinary lengths to ignore or deny the significance of Barstow’s piece?
How about giving the top anchors of any network who used the Pentagon flacks without disclosure, and without a “mea culpa” following Barstow’s article, a five-year ban from ever receiving a Pulitzer themselves?
There should be some consequence for willingly and probably knowingly becoming part of the Pentagon propoganda machine. And the fastest way for accountability could end up being through the egos of the prima donnas.
gil mann
Robinson deserves it just for “dude, you got owned.”
Corner Stone
@gil mann: Wasn’t it, “Made him his companion”? That was awesome.
ANd I personally really don’t care for Gene.
Zifnab
@DougJ: haha. Very possible.
gil mann
Same segment, Corner Stone. What was great about the “companion” bit was the way his mouth started forming the word “bitch” but then a million gun-shy Countdown viewers hit him with psychic rays of “please don’t make us relive the primary.”
Jon
Now you’re just being churlish. You may not like the globalist-happy talk coming from Friedman these days (and neither do I), and he seems to phone it in more often than not, but read “From Beirut to Jerusalem” and tell me that isn’t the work of a crackerjack reporter who, in many cases, risked his well-being to get the story.
Just Some Fuckhead
I got no problem with Friedman winning the pullitzer but they shoulda made him wait a perpetual six months to receive it.
DougJ
I’m really not. His column is so bad it makes me hard to think he could have been a good reporter. You’ve read his books and I haven’t, so I will happily surrender to you in this argument. But you can see where I’m coming from, right?
bago
There is a reason wonkette has a noonington section.
gil mann
I hate that “FTW!” shit but J.S. Fuckhead leaves me no choice.
I like this so much better than what you meant to write.
sgwhiteinfla
Glenn Greenwald asks a very good question.
Linkmeister
@ valdivia Hey, when mentioning WaPo columnists who earn their keep, add Dan Froomkin to your list.
Yeah, he’s technically WaPo Online vs the print edition, but still. . .
Jon
I don’t expect you to read the books, but here is the story that won him his first Pulitzer, in 1982. It is spare and unremitting and pulls no punches in blaming Israel for the massacre. Maybe that reporter is long gone, but he existed, once. Give it a read when you have some time. Here’s just a small part:
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@Just Some Fuckhead: …they shoulda made him wait a perpetual six months to receive it.
LOL
cosanostradamus
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Does Roxanne still come with?
I hope she wiped it off!
Here’s some FRESH news!
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