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“The envelope please. . . . This year’s Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is awarded to . . . Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss . . . for their work exposing the alliance between Twitter and other Big Tech Behemoths and Big Government that coordinates efforts to suppress and censor free speech. For their exposure of 51 foreign policy types who knowingly and actively interfered in the 2020 election in support of Biden. And for their efforts stirring the pot, asking hard questions, demanding answers, rejecting lies, spotlighting uncomfortable truths, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. And being journalists.”
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[See the blatant dishonesty, hypocrisy and cowardice of the corporate stenographers who masquerade as journalists in America and cover for each other but disregard one of the world’s most courageous journalists in the proclamation “Journalism Organizations Call On Administration To Prioritize Reporters Taken Hostage [But Not Real Reporters Such As Julian]” dated April 14, 2023. And not a word about Gonzalo Lira today.]
[Please send your nomination for the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary for 2024 and a supporting letter by January 21, 2024 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Make journalism great again
Make journalism journalism again
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“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”
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Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023)
Posted in Awards / Incentives, First Amendment, Journalism, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary on May 8, 2023 by e-commentary.org. . .
“The envelope please. . . . This year’s Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is awarded to . . . Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss . . . for their work exposing the alliance between Twitter and other Big Tech Behemoths and Big Government that coordinates efforts to suppress and censor free speech. For their exposure of 51 foreign policy types who knowingly and actively interfered in the 2020 election in support of Biden. And for their efforts stirring the pot, asking hard questions, demanding answers, rejecting lies, spotlighting uncomfortable truths, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. And being journalists.”
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[See “Post-Decency Politics: House Democrats Use Hearing to Attack Both Free Speech and a Free Press” by Jonathan Turley in “JonathanTurley.org” dated March 13, 2023 and “Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?” by Yves Smith, the recipient of the Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), in “Naked Capitalism” reprinting “Democrats vs. Democrats – One of Them Will Lose” by Thomas Neuburger in “neuburger.substack.com” dated April 6, 2023.]
[See the blatant dishonesty, hypocrisy and cowardice of the corporate stenographers who masquerade as journalists in America and cover for each other but disregard one of the world’s most courageous journalists in the proclamation “Journalism Organizations Call On Administration To Prioritize Reporters Taken Hostage [But Not Real Reporters Such As Julian]” dated April 14, 2023. And not a word about Gonzalo Lira today.]
[See the e-commentary on the ongoing international crime at The Persecution Of Assange And The Feckless MSM (September 21, 2020).]
[See the e-commentary on the Commentary Award and previous recipients at Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021), Fifth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2020 (May 4, 2020), Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019), Third Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2018 (April 16, 2018), Second Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2017 (April 10, 2017), First Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2016 (April 18, 2016) and Pulitzers Are Pro-War? Pressing The Pushitzers (April 22, 2013).]
[Please send your nomination for the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary for 2024 and a supporting letter by January 21, 2024 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Make journalism great again
Make journalism journalism again
Knowledge is not power, but ignorance is powerless
“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” George Orwell
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