Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon responds to the journalism industry’s latest proof that it’s out of touch with society.
Mainstream journalists have yet to embrace the cultural “vibe shift” triggered by Donald Trump’s election in 2024 (and probably never will before the entire industry collapses in a heap of financial ruin). The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, suggest the media remain as determined as ever to advance their radical left-wing political agenda despite the fact that most Americans find it weird and obnoxious. Five years after the Pulitzer board honored Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the controversial 1619 Project, for her “provocative” journalism that inspired “public conversation about the nation’s founding” (not least among historians who assailed its inaccuracy), it’s remarkable how little has changed.
Some context: Trump sued the Pulitzer board for libel in 2022 after the board publicly reaffirmed the 2018 awards it gave the New York Times and Washington Post for reporting on Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, much of which was undermined by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Efforts to get the case tossed out of court have not been successful thus far. …
… ProPublica, the nonprofit news outlet funded by Apple widow Laurene Powell Jobs and other rich liberals, won for its reporting on a series of deaths allegedly attributable to state abortion laws. The reporting was credibly denounced as misleading if not deliberately deceptive. …
… The Wall Street Journal took home the prize for its widely denounced (but accurate) reporting on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Just kidding. The Journal has been frequently snubbed by the Pulitzer board due to its affiliation with conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch. For example, the paper did not win a Pulitzer for exposing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as a complete fraud. The Journal won this year, however, for a series of articles “chronicling the political and personal shifts” of Elon Musk, as well as his alleged use of “illegal drugs.”
