By Danny Schechter
Truthout, Consortium News | Op-Ed - Sunday, 20 April 2014
The United States' mainstream media still pretend they are
custodians of "serious journalism," but those claims continue to erode
as the corporate press shies away from its duty to challenge propaganda
emanating from various parts of the US government.
First the good news: The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was not
only the best covered of its awards this year, but it recognized a
series of disclosures that made many media outlets nervous, if not
adversarial – the publication of National Security Agency secrets leaked
by Edward Snowden.
The award recognized the reporting by the Guardian in England and also Bart Gellman’s work in the Washington Post
even as they, did not recognize the work directly of Glenn Greenwald
and Laura Poitras whose independent reporting appeared in many
newspapers.
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