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With all due respect to Susan Fowler and her courage, I think this would be an insult to investigative journalism.
by mohamedattahri 9y ago
With all due respect to Susan Fowler and her courage, I think this would be an insult to investigative journalism.
- dcwca 9y agoTake a look at the Pulitzer categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize#Categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize#Categories Only 1 out of 21 categories are reserved for investigative journalism, and there are categories reserved for commentary, criticism, and editorial, all of which are potentially suitable for Fowler's article.
- hlc 9y agoI'm sure how familiar you are with the categories, but really, criticism? None of those are really suitable nor would her blog piece be competitive in a category that would only be potentially suitable. And in my opinion it certainly doesn't deserve a pulitzer in investigative journalism. I think it would be cool to a new category for something like this that better captures the intent of the piece.
- chaostheory 9y agoWhy isn't Fowler's piece considered criticism?
- Paul-ish 9y agoLooking at the prize awardees for criticism, the award is for art criticism. So it wouldn't apply to Fowler's writing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Criticism
- chaostheory 9y agoOk, does it not apply to commentary or any other Pulitzer prize category?
- CPLX 9y agoThe category that would be applicable here is autobiography or maybe personal essay. Those aren't listed. There is a difference between writing about events in which you are a principal actor and ones where you are not, though needless to say that line is often very blurry.
- mcguire 9y agoFeature Writing? General Non-Fiction?
- GCA10 9y agoArticle author here .... Thanks for reading. Not sure if you had a chance to read the actual article that ran between the headline and the comments section, but just in case ... In paragraph 10 of the story, I observe: "It would be hard for a single blog post, no matter how detailed, to compete in the Pulitzers' investigative reporting category, where winners tend to be multi-part series that involve resource-intensive data collection. But the Pulitzers' public-service category is more fluid." More broadly, the grand old prizes (Nobel, Pulitzer, etc.) are wrestling with ways to update their century-old formats to match the world we live in. Any effort to stretch old boundaries will be at least slightly controversial. Even so, it's a more interesting world if the Nobel Prize for literature stretches to include Bob Dylan than if it doesn't. In the same way, starting to think about how/where to recognize the very best of the blogosphere in the Pulitzers is a conversation worth having.
- CobrastanJorji 9y ago> Thanks for reading. Not sure if you had a chance to read the actual article that ran between the headline and the comments section... Grade A snark like that is how we know this is a Pulitzer-winning journalist.
- nodejbackend 9y agohaha gottem
- shawn-butler 9y agoSnark deserves nothing but derision. I can't think of a single redeeming value of snark to be honest. It's facetious, dishonest and toxic. It's not even good comedy.
- Cuntaholic 9y agoYou must have an extremely easy life that was full of participation trophies
- Whatacunt 9y agoYou sound like a cunt who had too many participation trophies