1619 Slavery

It took sixteen long years for the journalism establishment to vindicate Dan Rather, but yesterday the Pulitzer Prize committee finally accomplished its goal. As John wrote yesterday, the egregiously error-filled “1619 Project” won recognition from Pulitzer as “a sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay,” without mentioning that it came under…

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In August 2019, the New York Times debuted the 1619 Project, the brainchild of Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Times staff writer.  The premise was that 1619 marked the year in which the first African slaves came to America, permanently corrupting America's founding. The 1619 Project was condemned for serious historical inaccuracies.*  In her inaugural article — "Our democracy's founding ideals…

May 4, 2020 | 7:22pm Enlarge Image Pulitzer malpractice: Apparently, willful error can now win you the most elite prize in journalism. Mike Vitelli/BFA.com for The New York Times As it was designed to do, The New York Times’ woefully mistaken 1619 Project just won a Pulitzer Prize. Worse, the…

Doubling down on wokeness, the Pulitzer Center gave a prestigious prize to a controversial project reframing US history as racist, while its head proclaimed the special role of journalists as guardians of truth and democracy. The Pulitzer Prize for commentary was given on Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New…

Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for an essay the New York Times corrected substantially after an array of respected academics disputed its grasp on history. That means the Pulitzers bizarrely rewarded inaccurate journalism with journalism’s highest prize. That Hannah-Jones’s article advanced historical inaccuracies is not a matter…

Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Photo: Joan Marcus The Pulitzer Prizes, the original remote awards ceremony, announced its winners today, including many groundbreaking works chronicling the African-American experience. Author Colson Whitehead won his second fiction prize in as many books with The…

By KJ EdelmanMay 4th, 2020, 4:12 pm The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon with 15 winners in journalism and seven in book, drama, and music. The New York Times won the most for a publication with three awards in investigative reporting, international reporting, and commentary. Of their three…

A 28 year veteran of The New York Times slammed the paper on Wednesday for not correcting “deeply flawed articles” on the Russian collusion conspiracy and its “1619 Project.” RealClearInvestigations editor Tom Kuntz, who left the Times in 2016 after nearly three decades at the paper as a reporter and…

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, May 6, 2020. This is Willie Mays’ birthday. Yes, the “Say Hey” Kid turns 89 today. During the current lockdown, everybody has things they miss, maybe activities they once took for granted: going to school or the office, having a drink at your favorite saloon, hugging…