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>>>Articles>>>The naughty truth regarding Joseph Pulitzer
   
Many writers strive to win the Pulitzer prize for their work. We hear about "Pulitzer Prize winning writer/playwright/journalist/songwriter/infinite number of monkeys typing Shakespeare. Where does this terrific prize come from? From the mind of Joseph Pulitzer, who the official Pulitzer website says "stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. Hungarian-born, an intense indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skillful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a fierce, hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession". What a damn great guy. In his will, he laid out provisions so that his legacy could live on through the Pulitzer prize. Now writers and journalists strive to win this coveted prize.
Pulitzer was an true innovator in journalism. Today, nearly all newspapers and news broadcasts use his methods. Flash back to the late 1800s. His two papers, World and Evening World enjoyed massive circulation and huge readership. They quickly became the most-read newspapers in the county. They attracted nearly all ethnic classes and working groups. The editorial page fought against corruption; the newspaper set standards for newspapers everywhere. Please note, the editorial page, which fought against injustice and corruption and sought to reform the system, is not what set standards for newspapers everywhere. What did the influencing, however, was Pulitzers treatment of the news. Along with William Randolph Hearst, Pulitzer pioneered a new style of presenting the news. They used catchy headlines, they wrote news that played to people's emotions. They had startling examples of wrong doings, sensational news reports, in depth reporting on people's lives and everything else that "respectable" journalists and soccer moms in supermarket check out lines turn their nose up at in distaste. The heavy competition between Hearst and Pulitzer forced them to come up with new ways to bring in new readers.
Please note reader that before this time, 'yellow journalism' was not in the English lexicon.
Readers of both newspapers begged for scandals, and what John Q. Public wants, John Q. Public gets. Choice public enemy at that time was Spain, who had Cuba. Cuba didn't want to be had by Spain. Drama! Action! Large type headlines and stretched truth! Reporting on this issue was not fair and unbiased, it was exactly what the people wanted to hear. Then the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the World helped reveal the startling truth that the explosion wasn't an accident! With this newfound information, the pressure on President McKinley to get the parties responsible (the enemy!, who, according to the newspapers, or rather, the only newspapers worth reading, i.e. the World, thoughtful explained was Spain) and teach them not to mess with The Man! Thanks to public pressure, President McKinley did declare war.
There is, of course, only one problem with all this. It's not hard to figure out either.
Didn't Pulitzer do good things? Sure. He made informative articles. He fought against injustice. He set up the Pulitzer prize. He shouldn't be anybody's hero though, and the way he is frequently portrayed as THE HERO OF TRUTH AND BEST DAMNED JOUNALIST IN THE WORLD is as untrue as the above bolded statement. Fortunatly, Pulitzer dies with enough money from his newspaper that he was able to buy a new reputation by presenting prestigious awards for things that he wasn't exactly known for.


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How fair and unbiased are the awards?
For a novel to win a pulitzer prize it must be a novel: "which shall best present the whole atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood" or at least, that's the way it started off, nowadays, the part about "whole atmosphere" has been reworded to read "wholesome atmosphere". Can you spot the difference? Sinclair Lewis, great American novelist who told it like it was, and implied that America wasn't really so wholesome, LOST. Well, what are Pulitzer prize striving novelist going to do when every last shed of wholesomeness is gone from American. Heaven knows we're working hard to get rid of it. That's really my only complaint about the awards. So much for truth.
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