A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. – Joseph Pulitzer. It’s a tribute to journalists’ vanity and self-mythologization that the Pulitzer Prizes still retain some aura of gravitas. Having chronicled them extensively for Columbia Journalism School, I think of the prizes more like Oprah’s Book Club or the Grammys—a mark of bland establishmentarian respectability, and likely sign that the product is a rubber stamp.
Were you connected to the Pulitzers while Keven Willey was there? I used to read her column in the Arizona Republic decades ago and thought she was a sensible centrist. I was disappointed that her tenure failed to achieve revocation of the ridiculous award that Duranty won for his Stalinist propaganda.
Ivy Exile, all the opinion polls agree that public trust in the news media has sunk to its historical minimum. To what do the journos you know, including professors of journalism, attribute the evaporation of their public credibility? In view of that, what do they think will restore it?
Excellent article from a rarely heard inside view. "Pomp and circumstance guarantees decline" is one of Parkinson's laws.
Were you connected to the Pulitzers while Keven Willey was there? I used to read her column in the Arizona Republic decades ago and thought she was a sensible centrist. I was disappointed that her tenure failed to achieve revocation of the ridiculous award that Duranty won for his Stalinist propaganda.
Ivy Exile, all the opinion polls agree that public trust in the news media has sunk to its historical minimum. To what do the journos you know, including professors of journalism, attribute the evaporation of their public credibility? In view of that, what do they think will restore it?