Hvad kan vi lære af årets Pulitzer

Charles Warner analyserer årets Pultizer-priser for Huffington Post - og det er interessant læsning.

Vi bringer et par konklusioner:

"This year's Pulitzer Prizes for journalism not only rewarded good news, they were good news."

Warner fryder sig også over, at The Enquirer ikke blev belønnet for en Pulitzer for deres afdækning af John Edwards' utroskab:

"Giving an award to the Enquirer would have legitimized the tabloid, celebrity-bashing, UFO-sighting, sensationalistic press. It would have been like giving Jack the Ripper a medal for reducing the number of prostitutes on the streets of London."

Samtidig sviner han Rupert Murdoch for at ødelægge Wall Street Journal, der er inde i en Pulitzer-krise:

"Murdoch is slowly trying to turn the Wall Street Journal into an up-scale National Enquirer. He doesn't care about public service or good journalism or Pulitzer Prizes. His prize is profit, power, and revenge. Too bad he's taking a great paper like the Journal down the pandering path."

Og ja, så morer han sig over, at Pulitzer med et par priser for første gang har anerkendt, at internettet eksisterer. Og at der bliver lavet god journalistik der.

// © MPH