The Pulitzers aren't always first prize

Journalists get all excited each spring when the Pulitzers are handed out for their best works. But many evil doings at home and abroad never get exposed because of liberal bias.

Here’s my reaction to this good piece in The Free Press that laments the decline of journalism’s top prize and the extinction of star 'city street columnists' like Jimmy Breslin, who knew how to find the good stories and how to write them.

Back When the Pulitzer Meant Something

Missing Pulitzers

Damn. Left off the Pulitzer Prize list again.

I don't want to be a sore loser 30-plus years in a row. And I mean no disrespect for my talented friends and ex-newspaper colleagues who won Pulitzers.

But of course the Pulitzers are geographically rigged to favor the New York-DC corridor of evil and are so ideologically tilted and partisan they make the Oscars and the Grammies look respectable and credible.

I don't know who won the Walter Duranty Prize this year for their coverage of our bloody proxy war of choice in Ukraine and the corruption of its heroic oligarchs.

And, it's great to see that Trump and his regime remains a soft, rich and insatiable target for his sane and deranged enemies alike in Big Media and what's left of print.

But did anyone win a Pulitzer this year for their deep look into Dr. Fauci's career of deadly errors and deliberate lies, his devious federal funding tricks and off-shoring of Gain-of-Function (GoF) research to China?

Did any crack journalist or top news outfit win, place or show for their investigation into the ongoing harm done to public health by the lucrative Big Pharma-FDA revolving door relationship (The Scott Gottlieb Prize)?

Did anyone look into how the CDC bosses suppressed, ghosted and defunded doctors who questioned their covid policies?

I realize that's all old, outdated, boring non-news, and I'm sorry if I missed that Pulitzer Prize handed out for exposing the high covid death tolls that were caused in 2020 by the inept governments of New York State, Pa. and Michigan. (Wasn't that the first Cuomo Prize?)

I'm also sure a PP went to whoever exposed the lying public officials and slimy politicians who were responsible for the unscientific and arbitrary lockdowns that did lasting damage to children, businesses and whole towns and that were enforced by some tyrannical governors in ways the Chi-Coms would envy.

Some other prizes I must have missed:

That deep and enraged bipartisan look at how our public servants in Congress enrich themselves while in office (The LBJ/Pelosi Prize).

The exposes of the Minneapolis Day Care racket.... The decades of waste and failure at FEMA, the IRS and the FAA... The zillions of tax dollars wasted or stolen in the last half-century by do-gooders at USAID. The slaughter and destruction in Gaza committed by Israel? Maybe next year?

I'm sure there were many worthy PP winners, as there usually are.

But my general and entirely cynical rule about all awards -- from the Oscars to the Pulitzers -- is that the more you know about how the awards are decided and who does the deciding, the less respect you have for their prizes.