{"id":1559619,"date":"2022-07-18T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559619"},"modified":"2022-07-18T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:49:21","slug":"fake-news-board-commonly-known-as-pulitzer-prize-defends-award-to-2018-russia-hoaxers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fake-news-board-commonly-known-as-pulitzer-prize-defends-award-to-2018-russia-hoaxers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Board (Commonly Known As Pulitzer Prize) Defends Award To 2018 Russia Hoaxers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffake-news-board-commonly-known-as-pulitzer-prize-defends-award-to-2018-russia-hoaxers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559619&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/16918680293_5187babdae_k-e1658162296980.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Pulitzer Prize Board last weekend defended its 2018 award to a team of New York Times reporters who devoted story after story to a Democrat-concocted conspiracy framing President Donald Trump as a foreign agent. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the board released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/news\/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> saying the organization stood by its 2018 presentations after years of criticism provoked an \u201cindependent\u201d review. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pulitzer Prize Board has an established, formal process by which complaints against winning entries are carefully reviewed,\u201d the committee wrote, highlighting multiple submissions received over its joint reward to The New York Times and The Washington Post over the Russia hoax four years ago. The board explained that the entries, including from Trump, led the center to commission two reviews probing the credibility of the outlets\u2019 work. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe separate reviews converged in their conclusions,\u201d the board wrote, \u201cthat no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Except the central premise of each paper\u2019s reporting, which sought to undermine the democratically elected president, proved entirely fabricated in the publication of the Mueller report, the product of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"ZH9ERwJ4bHCNRGoPMDiQ1mUwFspEyIqq8fhQXWvFOGhTAkZ7TtSorWpyxDOJ3uua8Mz\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Even as media credibility craters, Pulitzers are doubling down on the awards they gave to propagandists for perpetrating the false, dangerous, and damaging Russia collusion hoax. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gJuRpV5b6c\">https:\/\/t.co\/gJuRpV5b6c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1549061194690035712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Theories that Trump was operating in cahoots with Kremlin leadership to capture the White House spread as DNC-funded opposition research in the form of the now-widely discredited Steele dossier. Commissioned by the Democratic Party through the research firm Fusion GPS, the dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele lodged a series of unsubstantiated allegations about Trump and his alleged involvement with Russia, including the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/12\/13\/schiffs-very-serious-dossier-intel-is-now-just-a-pee-tape-joke-to-him\/\">content<\/a> ripe for blackmail. <\/p>\n<p>The dossier, which itself was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/25\/primary-source-for-bogus-steele-dossier-was-deemed-a-national-security-threat\/\">based<\/a> on likely Russian disinformation, was wielded by the media to produce salacious headlines, the FBI to conduct a deep-state coup, and Democrat lawmakers to pursue a witch hunt investigation. That investigation took the shape of a congressionally initiated probe led by Mueller \u2014 who, after a more than two-year operation with unlimited resources, found that not one person in the Trump campaign, let alone Trump himself, colluded with the Russian government. <\/p>\n<p>Outlets who parroted the Democrats\u2019 claims remain rewarded with prestigious accolades even as their reporting undermined the democracy they claim to prioritize. The Pulitzer Prize given to The Washington Post and The New York Times in 2018 was no isolated incident in its irresponsible presentation. <\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Pulitzer award was given to the lead essay in The New York Times Magazine\u2019s \u201c1619 Project.\u201d The essay had already been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/04\/a-pulitzer-prize-was-just-given-to-the-1619-essay-the-new-york-times-admitted-was-historically-inaccurate\/\">substantially corrected<\/a>, with the paper admitting that the primary piece of its new flagship project was historically inaccurate. A 36-word editor\u2019s note pinned to the piece reads, \u201cA passage has been adjusted to make clear that a desire to protect slavery was among the motivations of some of the colonists who fought the Revolutionary War, not among the motivations of all of them.\u201d The note then led readers to an even longer, 500-word \u201cupdate\u201d from the magazine\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein, who conceded:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>We recognize that our original language could be read to suggest that protecting slavery was a primary motivation for\u00a0<em><strong>all<\/strong> of<\/em>\u00a0the colonists. The passage has been changed to make clear that this was a primary motivation for\u00a0<em><strong>some<\/strong> of<\/em>\u00a0the colonists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The correction is of no small significance as the new phrasing undermines the central argument of the project to demonize the nation as built for the sole purpose of oppression. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, no <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/12\/so-wheres-post-pulitzer-for-hunter-biden-expose-goodwin\/\">awards were given <\/a>to the New York Post for breaking the biggest story of the 2020 election. Weeks before the contest, the Post published a series of articles from an abandoned laptop evidently belonging to Hunter Biden, then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s son. Revelations from the laptop\u2019s hard drive contradicted the now-president\u2019s repeated claims of never talking about business with his son, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/28\/biden-brother-business-2020-1476815\">or with anyone else<\/a>,\u201d and even <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons\">implicated<\/a> the future president in corrupt business deals with the Chinese Communist Party. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, rather than reward the paper, which was shunned on social media for its blockbuster reporting, legacy news outlets were quick to bury stories until <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\">well after <\/a>their preferred presidential candidate had made it safely into the White House. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/look-how-media-propagandists-covered-the-trump-russia-hoax-vs-the-bombshell-biden-laptop-scandal\/\">same actors<\/a> who amplified the Russia hoax against Trump launched a smear campaign to discredit the New York Post as publishing Russian disinformation. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pulitzer Prize Board last weekend defended its 2018 award to a team of New York Times reporters who devoted story after story to a Democrat-concocted conspiracy framing President Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}