It’s that time of year again when the liberal media pats themselves on the back and gives themselves awards for being biased hacks in various categories, A.K.A. The Pulitzer Prizes. During Monday’s announcement of the winners, administrator Marjorie Miller droned on in monotone as she put the press’s right to free speech above that of critics. She decried who had negative things to say about the press, suggesting it was un-American and an infringement on their free speech.
“These are particularly difficult times for the media and publishers in the United States,” Miller proclaimed.
Convinced that the media had a greater right to free speech than those who would level legitimate criticism against them, Miller bemoaned the “legal harassment” and “attacks on their work and legitimacy.” Ultimately proclaiming that using your free speech against the media was un-American:
Atop years of severe financial pressures and layoffs, amid the dangers of covering wars and natural disasters, journalists and writers now face additional threats in the form of legal harassment, the banning of books, and attacks on their work and legitimacy.
These efforts are meant to silence criticism. To edit or rewrite history. They’re an attempt to erode the First Amendment of our Constitution. Which guarantees a free press and free speech.
“What you’ll see in our journalism finalists and winners is courageous reporting and impactful storytelling from unbowed newsrooms,” she boasted.
First off, the “legal harassment” she’s talking about included the legitimate defamation claims made by private citizens like Navy veteran Zachary Young, who won his case with a jury finding CNN liable for malicious defamation, and Dr. Mahendra Amin who settled his defamation case with MSNBC back in February after they erroneously claimed he was collecting uteruses from illegal immigrant women.
It was not “legal harassment” for Dr. Brian Morley to sue John Oliver for defamation after Oliver and his production team allegedly deceptively edited Morley’s words and lied about the context of his sworn testimony in order to enrage the public about Iowa’s Medicaid system.
Those cases were not “legal harassment” as Miller huffed, but rather attempts by private citizens to hold the media accountable for their terrible and harmful reporting, done out an unearned sense of superiority and righteousness.
As for the winners of the prizes, where’s some of the recipients who won for advancing liberal causes and hate mongering:
- The “Public Service” prize when to ProPublica for “urgent reporting…about pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in states with strict abortion laws.”
- The New Yorker’s Mosab Abu Toha earned the “Commentary” prize “for essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.”
- Former Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, was gifted the “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary” prize “for delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”
- The collective staff of The Wall Street Journal garnered the “National Reporting” prize, “for chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
This is the Media Research Center gives out our Bulldog awards to journalists who actually deserve prizes for their work.
The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:
The Pulitzer Prizes
May 5, 2025
3:01:24 p.m. Eastern(…)
MARJORIE MILLER: These are particularly difficult times for the media and publishers in the United States. Atop years of severe financial pressures and layoffs, amid the dangers of covering wars and natural disasters, journalists and writers now face additional threats in the form of legal harassment, the banning of books, and attacks on their work and legitimacy.
These efforts are meant to silence criticism. To edit or rewrite history. They’re an attempt to erode the First Amendment of our Constitution. Which guarantees a free press and free speech.
Despite all of this, and partly because of it, today is a day for celebration. What you’ll see in our journalism finalists and winners is courageous reporting and impactful storytelling from unbowed newsrooms.
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