Our own Amy Curtis did a VIP post earlier about what a joke the Pulitzer Prize has become, and since you're reading this, you're a VIP and have already read it or should right now. As Curtis reported, ProPublica won the 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on "deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states." We all know about the death of Amber Nicole Thurman, whose name came up at every Kamala Harris campaign rally. ProPublica, Harris, and the rest of the media blamed abortion laws in Georgia. Thurman actually got an abortion — she was given abortion pills and sent home, but ended up dead. Her cause of death was listed as sepsis from the "retained products of conception."
I've been hearing a lot about the Pulitzer Prizes on Tuesday. Not that any of it matters to me … the New York Times and the Washington Post still have their Pulitzers for their investigation into the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia in 2016.
For example, Katie Couric, who's still around somewhere, congratulated Ann Telnaes for winning a Pulitzer. She also congratulated Telnaes for resigning from the Washington Post when it passed on a political cartoon showing the tech bros and Mickey Mouse bowing down before President Donald Trump. Stunning and brave, right?
Congratulations to @AnnTelnaes who resigned from the @washingtonpost when this political cartoon of tech executives groveling at the feet of @realDonaldTrump was rejected by the paper. Yesterday it was announced she won a Pulitzer Prize. pic.twitter.com/TMAIhyVYwg
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) May 6, 2025
Doesn’t everyone who opposes Trump get an award of some kind? https://t.co/KR9qCDo0dc
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 6, 2025
Yep.
Wow, she resigned over a cartoon?! How brave. How bold.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) May 6, 2025
Just maybe, the paper's owner wasn't keen on being portrayed bowing to Trump and handing over a bag of money.
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And speaking of the Washington Post, it won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the loud noises at Trump's Butler rally.
The Washington Post, which initially described the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as "loud noises at rally," has just received a Pulitzer for its coverage of the assassination attempt.
— Elle Purnell (@_ellepurnell) May 5, 2025
(h/t: original screenshot from @TomBevanRCP) pic.twitter.com/DKw1elDwGF
Where's the Post's award-winning follow-up on would-be assassin Thomas Crooks? I don't remember seeing any. The whole of the news media just sort of forgot about him. I'm not sure whether to blame the media or the FBI, or both.
Disgusting
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 6, 2025
The Pulitzer prize is a joke and its recipients should be mercilessly mocked for being pathetic propagandists. https://t.co/rZM6MveSkj
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 5, 2025
They're not ever going to stop applauding themselves. They lost the public's trust so they fill each other up with unearned hollow awards full of self-congratulations, from one dishonest activist to another.
— Jaytee (@gat0g1rl) May 6, 2025
As we reported, the Washington press corps just patted itself on the back over the weekend at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, aka "nerd prom," where they gave out awards for "missing" President Joe Biden's mental decline that the rest of us saw with our own eyes.
The Pulitzer has joined the Nobel Peace prize in being completely valueless now.
— John Galt (@USAPatriotBT) May 5, 2025
Kinda like the Nobel Peace Prize when they awarded it to Obama...
— BowTiedMustardStain 🇺🇸 (@btmustardstain) May 5, 2025
How can we take anyone in the media seriously when this wins a Pulitzer? Journalists celebrating other journalists. Rather, political activists congratulating other political activists.
— DanHart1549 (@DHart1549) May 6, 2025
Exactly. Let them continue to celebrate themselves as a special class of person. The rest of us are getting our news elsewhere.
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