The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and other desciplines have been announced, and no, there's nothing in Santa's bag for Laura Ingram's crack reporting with the troops in the Green Zone. The list(with extra notes in parens):
Public service: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., and The Times-Picayune, New Orleans (for Hurricane Katrina coverage, and a source of some controversy...)
Breaking news:The Times-Picayune, New Orleans (ditto)
Investigative reporting: Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post (for reporting on the Abramoff scandals...)
Explanatory reporting: David Finkel, The Washington Post (for stories on the Bushies' attempts to bring democracy to Yemen.)
Beat reporting: Dana Priest, The Washington Post (for reporting on the secret CIA prisons and other stuff the Bush administration wishes you knew nothing about...)
National reporting: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times; and the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service (just the names Risen and Lichtblau stoke the rage and malevolence of right wingers everywhere... they've uncovered all sorts of nasty Bush administration stuff, including the NSA domestic spying program. And Risen's new book is full of scoops the right considers treasonous... and the SDUT and Copley for reporting about Randy "Duke" Cunningham...)
International reporting: Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley, The New York Times (for stories about the not-so-just Chinese justice system...)
Feature writing: Jim Sheeler, the Rocky Mountain News, Denver (probably the only one the righties will like -- for Sheeler's reporting on a Marine major who helps the families of fellow Marines killed in Iraq to cope with their loss).
Commentary: Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times. (for his reporting on Darfur)
Criticism: Robin Givhan, The Washington Post (for her snarky style editorials which famously once included a slam on Katherine Harris' ghoulish Y2K makeup.)
Editorial writing: Rick Attig and Doug Bates, The Oregonian, Portland (for editorials about an Oregonian mental hospital)
Editorial cartooning: Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (for cartoons like this... and this)
Breaking news photography: The Dallas Morning News (also for Katrina coverage)
Feature photography: Todd Heisler, the Rocky Mountain News, Denver (the second for the "other paper" in Denver, this time for a behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Marines from Colorado who were killed in Iraq)
Two other quickies are books I'll have to read (after Risen's):
History:Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
There's more, so see the link above or read the official Pullitzer release here.
And in fact, the right don't like it. They don't like it a lot... Some are even wondering if it's all just one big anti-Bush joke... not likely, friends. Not likely. And yes, it's tough to miss the political message in these awards, a message I might add that's as much for journalists as for the administration... (on a side note, it's got to be getting lonely out there on the Bush bus, with it becoming less and less crowded these days...)
Links: More on the prizes from CJR. And Buzzmachine commends the Pulitzer organization for discovering the Internet (he's right about NOLA.com, which was a lifeline for New Orleans during Katrina...)
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