The Pewlitzer Prize Board has selected the Pulitzer Prize Board as the recipient of the “2022 Pewlitzer Prize for Demeaning the Profession of Journalism.”
For those board members who don’t understand what the word “demeaning” means, the definition used in this context is as follows: damaging or lowering the character, status, or reputation of someone or something.
It’s important to understand the importance of this inaugural Pewlitzer Prize. First, the context of this award.
2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
In 2018, left leaning opinion reporters who claim to be journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting “for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, using any available journalistic tool.” A five-person jury announced the specifics of the award:
For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.
The Pulitzer Prize Jury included Ken Armstrong, Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Susan Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic; Carlos Lozada, Associate Editor and Nonfiction Book Critic, The Washington Post; Kristin Roberts
Executive Editor, McClatchy Washington; and Jeff Taylor, Editor and Vice President, News, The Indianapolis Star.
Did you notice how the jury included a judge from one of the winning institutions? Yeah, so did our Pewlitzer Board.
2022 Pewlitzer Prize for Demeaning the Profession of Journalism
For rewarding biased and inaccurate coverage, to the detriment of the American public, of Russia’s alleged collaboration with the Trump campaign to interfere with the 2016 election based on a hoax.
In the four years since the articles were published, the facts have come out about the entire scam perpetrated by the Hillary Clinton team. It’s generally known that the Steele dossier was bogus. It was a hoax. The entire Russia collusion story was a hoax. The New York Times and The Washington Post knew the facts and failed the American people, caused enormous damage to the country and the Trump presidency.
Most recently, the Durham investigation has determined that, according to Byron York in the Washington Examiner, “Elements in and around the Clinton campaign sought to weaponize the FBI, and the FBI welcomed the effort — all in the name of defeating the Republican nominee for president.”
Where were The New York Times or The Washington Post “journalists” when there was a banquet table of truth? They were eating the dessert while the meat and potatoes sat there waiting to be noticed.
Pulitzer Prize Board Should Do the Right Thing
The Pewlitzer Board offers two recommendations. One, rescind the original prize. If they can’t stand the pressure it would cause from their comrades, there is another solution.
The Pulitzer Prize Board should reverse course and change the original category of the Prize from National Reporting to the more appropriate National Fiction. It’s a win – win. It’s accurate. It’s fun. And it would generate much needed PR for the Board, especially now that it’s been reported that the Pulitzer Prize Board is under fire to officially rescind the award by none other than former President Donald Trump.
According to a letter written in May by Trump’s team, the Pulitzer board should rescind the award from the New York Times and Washington Post.
"There is no dispute that the Pulitzer Board's award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published. The continuing publication and recognition of the prizes on the Board's website is a distortion of fact and a personal defamation that will result in the filing of litigation if the Board cannot be persuaded to do the right thing on its own.”
At this time, the Pulitzer Prize Board is refusing to back down.
The True Winners of the Prize
The journalists worthy of the actual prize are Brett Murphy, Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter. These reporters were nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2018. Their important work, described below, was egregiously placed behind fabricated stories based on a hoax widely known to have been perpetrated, bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and her sycophants.
Brett Murphy of USA Today Network For a graceful, data-driven narrative populated by the truckers who transport goods from America’s ports—spirited characters exploited by some of the country’s largest and best-known companies. Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting For poignantly exposing a shocking practice that took root in Oklahoma, Arkansas and other states in which, under the guise of criminal justice reform, judges steered defendants into drug rehabs that were little more than lucrative work camps for private industry.