![via The Morning Brew today:
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cor•rup•tion , n , dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week and as usual, the big media rattle off the names of those who’ve won this extremely prestigious american award. A major component of the Pulitzer is the awards in journalism, and each news media company trumpets it’s own winners and congratulates its peers.
Except no one seems to be congratulating David Barstow of The New York Times for his Pulitzer in Investigative Reporting.
The Salon has an explanation of of why Barstow is being shunned by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc.
Bastow was awarded the Pulitzer for his two articles that “were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered”.
Not only are these major networks refusing to inform their viewers and readers of the original stories written by Barstow, they are even refusing to talk about his award.
CNN ran an 898-word story on the various Pulitzer winners — describing virtually every winner — but was simply unable to find any space even to mention David Barstow’s name, let alone inform their readers that he won the Prize for uncovering core corruption at the heart of CNN’s coverage of the Iraq War and other military-related matters. No other major television news outlet implicated by Barstow’s story mentioned his award, at least as far as I can tell.
I agree with the Salon article saying:
The outright refusal of any of these “news organizations” even to mention what Barstow uncovered about the Pentagon’s propaganda program and the way it infected their coverage is one of the most illuminating events revealing how they operate.
Now, as a Canadian, I am very close to the American media, but I am blessed to have access to media from my own country to provide coverage such as this. I knew about the corruption and the story about the former generals who now work for major american news networks.
How, though, is the regular, every-man of middle america going to receive this important piece of reporting? For those who aren’t searching out new information to learn and who are satisfied with sound bytes as news, how are they going to know the difference about what is being told to them?
