Opinion by Erik Wemple: The Pulitzers’ Trump trap is every media outlet’s Trump trap
exploring how Comey shaped the 2016 election and included the detail that then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had asked Comey to refer to the Hillary Clinton email investigation not as an “investigation” but as a “matter.”
Surely the Pulitzer board had some foreshadowing that the review would produce nothing actionable. The October 2021 letter signed by Trump, after all, takes broad swipes at the Times-Post work and pierces none of it. For example: “As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation,” the letter reads.
to the Pulitzer announcement highlighted the perils of acceding to his baseless demands: “If the Pulitzer Prize has become a blatant acknowledgement of false, liberal political propaganda, then the Pulitzer Board should just say so,” he stated. That’s the Trump trap — one in which any honest decision draws his condemnation.
Just imagining the time spent by journalists who could have been doing useful work, all in service of a pathological liar's continuing ability to set Big Journalism's agenda:
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