The Purely Progressive Pulitzer Prize Parade
7th May 2025
The latest announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes brought great anticipation – not about who would win awards, but about what topics would be honored. Once again, the awards were dominated by the leftist brands – The New York Times and The New Yorker. Pulitzer Prize juries tend to hand out awards based on which causes they want to honor, and who they feel needs to be exposed.
In Donald Trump’s first term, four Pulitzer Prizes for reporting were handed out for investigating Trump, most notably for the phantom menace of Russian collusion in the 2016 campaign. As that conspiracy theory collapsed, Trump caused the Pulitzer bureaucrats to revisit this misinformation, but they resolved that since the awarded newspapers were merely channeling the anti-Trump lawyers and their findings, it was somehow not misinformation. It was publicity. The Pulitzer Publicity Prize.
In the previous eight years, there was not a single reporting prize for exposing anything about President Obama or his administration’s actions.
The 2025 Pulitzer announcement underlined that there was not a single reporting prize over the last four years for exposing anything about President Biden or his administration’s actions.