The Pulitzers’ Trump trap is every media outlet’s Trump trap

8/1/22
 
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by Erik Wemple,

from The Washington Post,
7/27/22:

The Pulitzer Prize Board made news with a recent announcement: Two independent reviews of its national reporting award in 2018 — shared by The Washington Post and the New York Times — had concluded that there were no grounds to rescind the honors. The journalism in question related to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Former president Donald Trump had petitioned the board to take back the awards.

That the board’s decisions were vindicated was far less surprising than the fact that the Pulitzer Board had commissioned the reviews at all. What was it thinking?

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