Another Pulitzer Pratfall
Well, our whore’s dream of winning a Pulitzer just went up in smoke yet again.
Our incendiary bombshell of a report on excessive beer drinking by Pulitzer judges was a surefire winner, we thought. More fool we. Obviously, they were too snozzled to appreciate courageous investigative reporting.
Other muckrakers escaped such discrimination. They won awards for newspaper pieces exposing gas companies who failed to pay royalties, laying bare the FDA’s failure to inspect tainted hamburger – and for a nonfiction book about bankers destroying the world, even though the book didn’t come out until it was too late.
You might think we would take the hint and try a different Pulitzer category, like fat fiction, editorial cartoons, or posthumous musicianship.
Not on your life. We’re dedicated CSI chalk-outline investigators, and we’ve just begun to fight. This year we’re going to expose Pulitzer judges for high living, questionable friends, and eating tainted hamburgers but then not dying because the meat was thoroughly cooked over gas from royalty cheaters.
Let them try to ignore that.
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You know, there’s more to hard-hitting journalism than colorful adverbs. Have you tried threats? Bribery?
Comment by Hearst — April 14, 2010 @ 6:15 pm
Obviously, The Horse would never engage in such tactics, but just hypothetically, how much do you think it would take?
Comment by Al — April 14, 2010 @ 6:18 pm