Maybe you missed the news that the august New York Times won yet another Pulitzer Prize, this one for its much-debunked "1619 Project." If you didn't, we have a question: Is there any better illustration for why Americans now hold the big media in such low esteem?
Nikole Hannah-Jones of the Times won the Pulitzer for Commentary on Monday, proving once again that the American media and its guiding institutions have continued to move far left, and that includes the Pulitzer Prize judges.
Among major media, none have made the sinistral shift more determinedly than the New York Times under Executive Editor Dean Baquet.
As the Times further elaborated, "Out of slavery - and the anti-black racism it required - grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality."
Faced with the actual facts, the New York Times later issued a correction, changing the statement to for "Some of" the colonists it was a "Primary motivation." Oh, really? How many? Two? A thousand? The pre-Civil War South, or just part? Nothing to support it.
A group of major U.S. historians, including Texas State University professor emerita Victoria Bynum, Princeton's James McPherson, Brown University historian Gordon Wood, CUNY's James Oakes, and Sean Wilentz of Princeton, wrote a letter calling out the Times for its extremist rewrite of American history.
Given the falsity of its narrative, and its substitution of ideology for fact, the Times doesn't deserve a Pulitzer for its misbegotten rewrite of history.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/05/06/tell-a-lie-win-a-pulitzer/
Nikole Hannah-Jones of the Times won the Pulitzer for Commentary on Monday, proving once again that the American media and its guiding institutions have continued to move far left, and that includes the Pulitzer Prize judges.
Among major media, none have made the sinistral shift more determinedly than the New York Times under Executive Editor Dean Baquet.
As the Times further elaborated, "Out of slavery - and the anti-black racism it required - grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality."
Faced with the actual facts, the New York Times later issued a correction, changing the statement to for "Some of" the colonists it was a "Primary motivation." Oh, really? How many? Two? A thousand? The pre-Civil War South, or just part? Nothing to support it.
A group of major U.S. historians, including Texas State University professor emerita Victoria Bynum, Princeton's James McPherson, Brown University historian Gordon Wood, CUNY's James Oakes, and Sean Wilentz of Princeton, wrote a letter calling out the Times for its extremist rewrite of American history.
Given the falsity of its narrative, and its substitution of ideology for fact, the Times doesn't deserve a Pulitzer for its misbegotten rewrite of history.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/05/06/tell-a-lie-win-a-pulitzer/
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