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Lizawithazee
04/20/09

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Laid off, but now Ashton Kutcher's ghost-tweater.
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gawkimo
12/09/08

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I like The Morning News.
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MrInBetween
12/08/08

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Joshua Micah Marshall is a lock to win the first online Pulitzer.
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sarcasticmeow
12/08/08

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Commentary is one of the best voyeurs into the true public interest. Therefore commenting on something may not just be a thing for humor, but one for deeper thought or meaning. Pullitzer Prizes may not be awarded for witty quips on articles regarding Madonna and A-Rod's latest Kaballah debacle but surely the out of touch old guard of publishing is in need of a wake up call. The internet is here to stay. With the death of print, one day these well known prizes could be given out via hollagram and not in an elitist ceremony run by the same families that have been writing our American History for the past 100 years.
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ObtuseIntolerant
12/09/08

@sarcasticmeow: See I actually find commentary can be misleading. It just amplifies the extremes and doesn't give a good sense of the real spread of opinion.

I still totes devour it though. Peeps can be funnnaaaaay.
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Sproing
12/08/08

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"It also requires a thoroughly snobbish definition of "public interest," which does not have much to do with what the public is actually interested in."

I'm going to be a prick now, but this is a willfully dishonest definition of "the public interest" that has previously been trumpeted Fox News. I think you know better, and I'm sure you were just trying to score ha-has, but this just grates.

[mediamatters.org]
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eatsshootsleaves
12/08/08

@Sproing: Yes. Exactly. Unfortunately this is something that Gawker does quite a bit, conflating the bad business model of old media with bad journalism.
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T.S._delegate
12/08/08

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"Winners of the Pulitzer Prize will receive the classic certificate and $10,000, to be presented in cash this year:

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eatsshootsleaves
12/08/08

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It also requires a thoroughly snobbish definition of "public interest," which does not have much to do with what the public is actually interested in.

And God help us all if they start giving awards for what the public is actually interested in. I mean that.
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/08/08

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"Oh, that. That's my Pulitzer Prize for commenting on Gawker. Oh you mean this over here. That's the cardboard box that I live in."
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Aaron Altman
12/08/08

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Matt Drudge is gonna have ANOTHER thing to brag about!!!1!
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