Politico Elected To Pulitzer Prize Board
Wow, methinks this press release, just out, will stir up a bit of discussion:
Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, a new media company covering national politics and governance, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
VandeHei, 38, is the first representative of a primarily online news organization to serve on the Pulitzer Board…
The company, with more than 100 employees, blends the old media values of fairness and accuracy with the speed and immediacy of new technologies.
What’s interesting is that this decision may not sit well with some old media types and new media types alike. New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, you may recall, recently blasted Politico for relying heavily on frivolous scoops and playing the “inside game” to a fault. Meanwhile, the criticism of Politico from bloggers and new media denizens is too familiar to recount here.
As I’ve noted before, there are two Politicos. There’s the good Politico, which offers big-picture, reported pieces that genuinely change the conversation, and boasts bloggers who break news, offer regular insights, and use Web-based journalistic techniques better than other “non-ideological” outlets do. The not-so-good Politico feshitizes Drudge and lunges for the catty gossip that will reverberate inside the Beltway bubble, and unabashedly sees these things as virtues.
The question is whether Politico’s Web-journalism techniques, in and of themselves, are really that innovative. Their main innovation seems like it consists in marrying widely-used Web-based techniques with self-styled “non-ideological” journalism. In an ironic twist, the very fact that Politico strives so hard for a non-ideological posture is probably why they’ve been selected as the first online news org to grace the Pulitzer board.
The decision will either mightly piss off liberal bloggers and new media types, or they’ll just dismiss it as the latest sign of the traditional media’s corruption and decline.
Michael Calderone has some invaluable context on the decision.
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About Time That They Caught Up With New Media:
I hope they change the award name, to reflect their new standards:
Call it:
The Pulitzer My Finger Prize.
“The question is whether Politico’s Web-journalism techniques, in and of themselves, are really that innovative.”
But I thought we needed to judge the individual and not the publication s/he worked for?
Why does SBJ, The Fibertarian, so often end his declaration of what he thought, with a question mark?
It would appear that he is always questioning if he really ever thought what he says he thought. I guess that would be the real tell on a True Fibertarian, Even he is questioning his own frequent lies.
Republican funded Politico.com is barely more credible than Republican Messiah Moon’s Washington Times.
This is just another negative data point in the trend towards a degradation of journalism.
Republican Politico.com’s political propagandist Jim Vandehei:
http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/jim_vandehei
Is the Republican propaganda outlet Politico.com still losing money?
Is having a right wing sugar-daddy what counts to the Pulitzer Prize Board these days?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/04/politico_funding/
Yay! More TMZ/Access Hollywood style journalism being pushed into what little credibility the MSM has left.
Soon, Palin will be winning Pulitzers, you can go to the bank on that.
Palin Around With Pulitzers?
OT
The best progressive voice in America now streams TV over the internet three hours a day five days a week:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/thomtv-2.php
I have to credit another commenter at another blog but–now the last season of The Wire is truly a documentary after the fact. Just wow.
The end of serious journalism has arrived.
I guess this means Beck is going to get a Pulitzer this year eh?
I’ve never been a big fan of the Pulitzer. Nine times out of ten, I don’t agree with their choice in literature or journalism.
Glenn Greenwald has done more journalism by reporting on the Republican funded propaganda outlet Politico.com than all of the ‘journalism’ purportedly done by Politico.com in it’s short, well funded, money losing history:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Politico.com+site%3Asalon.com%2Fopinion%2Fgreenwald
That last link picks up a lot of “noise” and duplicated articles, a better link listing Glenn Greenwald’s investigation of Republican funded Politico.com:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Politico.com+site%3Awww.salon.com%2Fopinion%2Fgreenwald
“The decision will either mightly piss off liberal bloggers and new media types, or they’ll just dismiss it as the latest sign of the traditional media’s corruption and decline.”
Why can’t it do both?
I can find it hiliarous watching traditional beltway media circle-j**k themselves into irrevelance, while also being angry that the new media continues to be shunned by those who currently have the biggest microphone.
If by “neutrality”, as far as Politico is concerned, you mean getting out of the way of factless talking points and their intended audience, and carefully removing actual journalism from their “style” of “reporting” then, yeah!!!
Speaking of Pulitzers, Glenn Beck is going to win one tonight:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/glenn-beck-will-singlehandedly-destroy-health-care-reform-glenn-beck-says/
I’m with Greg on the duality of Politico. They’ve got a big staff and many are certainly not poopy-heads. Unfortunately, VandeHei is one of those poopy-heads. No question they’ve found a viable formula but then again, so has Blackwater.
PS…and for god sakes, Josh would have been a far better choice.
Interesting. I didn’t think anything could make me less interested in the Pulitzers. Turns out I was wrong.
The Pulitzer Prize had a reputation at one time, but its recent decisions have raised questions about how valuable a prize it is nowadays. I find Politico pushy; Mike Allen appears every day on Morning Joe to giveus a breathless “issues of the day” ****; Harris and Vandenhei push hard and the overall impression is that its racy and tabloidish. There are simply too many political presstitutes in journlism today. Politico has an abundance of this type.
corrected:
Republican funded Politico.com entertainer “Mike Allen appears every day on” Republican politician Joe Scarborough’s MSNBC show “to give us a breathless” list of Republican talking points.
Do we expect the Pulitzer Board to reflect the ongoing degradation of our national political media? Yes. How could they not, they’re “journalists” themselves, no?
How was that decided? Were any left leaning groups even considered? Why Politico? What talents put them on this board over all the others when they seem more in tune with Beck, O’Reilly, Palin, Rush and Fox than anything resembling fair and balanced much less truth. They just got through publishing 5 op-eds from Steele without any fact checks or corrections. Just promoting the propaganda…exactly what should influence Pulitizer choices huh.
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