lol
This year's so bad I have no idea how to start.
Walter Duranty (25 May 1884 – 3 October 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1921).
In 1932, Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931. He was criticized for his subsequent denial of, and thereby exacerbation of, widespread famine (1932–1933) in the USSR,[1] most particularly the famine in Ukraine. Years later, there continue to be calls to revoke his Pulitzer. In 1990, The New York Times, which had submitted his works for the prize in 1932, wrote that his later articles denying the famine constituted "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper".
Most excellent idea.
I mean given the true history of Pulitzer, the award should be bad enough.
I don't think there are many journalists I'd put in the co-pilot seat of a Chinook this year, you know what I mean?
I mean if you can fit just one more for that free ride...
There are so many egregious cases of worse than Pravda articles this year that I cannot pick just one.
Was the "austere religious scholar" article this year or last, I can't recall...
I think it was this January.
Edit: Just checked, It was Soleimani who got dronestriked in January this year.
Baghdadi Austere Religious Scholar was April of 2019
Gotta go full Oprah:
You get an award! You get an award! EVERYBODY GETS AN AWARD!
The Mainstream media all are guilty of it.
I need to learn russian so I can read old copies of Pravda. I suspect it was more honest at the peak of the Holodomor than any US journalist.
Walter Duranty sure was worse than Pravda.
Any urinalist pushing lockdowns right now is worse than Walter Duranty.
I'm sure we can add that in to our current categories.
https://archive.fo/Y0JWh
Here's my nomination.
I'm in favor of it, I say we do a joint prize for CNN and MSNBC (and anyone else who reported similarly), for their "yes, I know there's literally buildings being torched by arson in the background, but trust me its mostly peaceful!" segments
the nyt is currently looking for a correspondent for russia. they are not even trying to hide that they want a lying mouthwhore for the job with gems like this in the job-description: