Tuesday, April 5, 2005
The blogosphere is in an uproar with righteous indignation over the Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography. The winners are all on this page...clearly the AP and the Pulitzer Committee believe a concerted effort to display American troops in a bad light is prize-worthy. Surreal. Rusty says that two of the photos are "positive" - one of an American soldier with a GI Joe in his pack, and one of American troops praying. I say that those are not, taken in this context and company - the AP's intent with printing them and the Committee's with nominating them - intended as complimentary.
As you will see as you surf the issue, the Pulitzer Committee has in some cases rewarded people who run with terrorists. Just shocking.
For more reaction and analysis also see Riding Sun, Michelle Malkin, Power Line and many others.
One thing is certain, the journalism profession has "elevated" itself outside the bounds of normal responsible morality. Whatever they do to "get the shot" - to the point of conveying the terrorists' point of view and then rewarding themselves for it - is acceptable.