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You are here: Home / Politics / Media / The Joke Is On Us

The Joke Is On Us

by John Cole|  December 7, 200912:54 pm| 80 Comments

This post is in: Media, Bring on the Brawndo!

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    I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. I was asked several times about had I read Sarah Palin’s book. (Laughter.) True. But it’s an indication of how our political debate doesn’t match up with what we need to do and where we need to go. – Barack Obama

This cracks me up:

Columbia University announced Monday that POLITICO Executive Editor Jim VandeHei has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

VandeHei , who co-founded POLITICO in early 2007, becomes the first member of the Pulitzer Board from a primarily online news outlet. The print edition of POLITICO is distributed daily in Washington when Congress is in session.

“In many ways, the Pulitzer Board is on the same mission as POLITICO: to embrace new media while fighting to protect the highest standards for writing, reporting and accuracy. I am honored to be a part of this effort,” VandeHei said.

I guess Drudge and Big Hollywood’s Andrew Breitbart were just too busy.

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  1. 1.

    geg6

    December 7, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    And thus ends any credibility the Pulitzer ever had.

  2. 2.

    John PM

    December 7, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    I guess we know whose “biography” is going to win the Pulitzer for “non-fiction” in 2010.

  3. 3.

    drunken hausfrau

    December 7, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    wow… and so ends “journalism” ….

  4. 4.

    Jim

    December 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Jeebus H Warren Christmas.

    This just defies snark. I guess Dickie Cohen will finally get that Pulitzer for Concern Trooling.

  5. 5.

    Short Bus Bully

    December 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    This IS good news for John McCain…

  6. 6.

    Why oh why

    December 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    “In many ways, the Pulitzer Board is on the same mission as POLITICO”

    For the first time, POLITICO tells the truth! (see Maureen Dowd’s Prize for Clinton Penis commentary)

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    December 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    “In many ways, the Pulitzer Board is on the same mission as POLITICO: to embrace new media while fighting to protect the highest standards for writing, reporting and accuracy. I am honored to be a part of this effort,” VandeHei said.

    He added, “it really is a shame that we completely fail at that mission.”

    -dms

  8. 8.

    4tehlulz

    December 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    I’m sure the Washington Times and Drudge can look forward to their Pulitzers.

  9. 9.

    Legalize

    December 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    And the final season of the Wire officially attains documentary-after-the-fact status.

  10. 10.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    December 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    the Pulitzer Board is on the same mission as POLITICO: to embrace new media while fighting to protect the highest standards for writing, reporting and accuracy.

    Good thing I didn’t have a mouth full of coffee when I read that, or I’d be cleaning off my keyboard right now…

    And no doubt, Vandehei will be nominating Glenn Beck for a Pulitzer any day now…

  11. 11.

    Bill H

    December 7, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    @The Republic of Stupidity:

    Good thing I didn’t have a mouth full of coffee when I read that

    Damn, I did have a mouthful of coffee.

  12. 12.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    December 7, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Josh Marshall’s invite must have gotten lost in the email.

  13. 13.

    Library Grape

    December 7, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    and yet another stake is driven through the heart of the kind of journalism we used to have in this country. it’s like perez hilton sitting on a panel of folks giving out oscars.

    sigh.

  14. 14.

    JenJen

    December 7, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that quote from the President, and I’m not sure I’ve ever been more pissed off at the little Heathers that run our media discourse.

  15. 15.

    Kryptik

    December 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to announce the winner for the Pulitzer Prize for Literary Achievement: Sarah Palin for her acclaimed autobiography…

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    December 7, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Anyway, I blame all of you for this travesty. You’ve been linking to and discussing Politico since its inception as if they were something other than a cleaned up version of Newsmax.

  17. 17.

    DCPlod

    December 7, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    I know this is Politico (aka Dick Cheney’s asslickers) but the brazeness of the wankery still astounds me.

    Also, thanks very much Politico for single handedly ruining one of Roger Ebert’s greatest reviews.

    But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” while passing on the opportunity to participate in “Million Dollar Baby,” “Ray,” “The Aviator,” “Sideways” and “Finding Neverland.” As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

    I now hate Politico with the heat of a thousand fiery suns.

  18. 18.

    freelancer

    December 7, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    @Legalize:

    No shit. ‘Cause in the ending montage, didn’t they actually show Templeton and his POS editors accepting a Pulitzer?

    We are all Snot-Boogie now.

  19. 19.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    December 7, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Since when did stenography count as new media?

  20. 20.

    cleek

    December 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    ding ding ding

  21. 21.

    still liberal

    December 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I see Obama using the Bush strategy in Afghanistan, turning over the financial crisis to those that created it, no clear plan for energy in the future, and economic and political power ever increasing in China and India. It would seem that the level of questions from pundits should not be something the President needs to dwell on.

    The President ran one of the most compelling campaigns in memory, but is frighteningly clumsy in the office he sought so brilliantly. There is time to turn the first term around, but it looks increasingly clear that a new set of advisers and policy are in order.

  22. 22.

    Martin

    December 7, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    So what will be the new category? Excellence in Starbursts? Excellence in Steganography? Excellence in Goin’ Rogue?

    We need a contest.

  23. 23.

    Redshirt

    December 7, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Let’s just do away with this illusion of “journalism” and look at all this for what it is: Opinions. You’ve got opinions, I’ve got opinions, everyone’s got an opinion. And gosh darn it, your opinion is just as good as those elitists with the arugula, amirite?

    Everyone gets a trophy, no one wins (except the league owners).

  24. 24.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    December 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Such monumental self-parody is yet another sign that the American empire is in decline. The future is up for grabs.

    This is good news for Hari Seldon.

  25. 25.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    From the pulitzer site

    Vanity Fair recently named VandeHei among the 100 most powerful Information Age thinkers for helping create the “model for the new media success story.”

    What model would that be? Drudge-bait?

  26. 26.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    December 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    @BillH:

    Damn, I did have a mouthful of coffee.

    Heh… learned my lesson the hard way… NO liquids near the keyboard…

  27. 27.

    JenJen

    December 7, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Makes me miss the Democratic Underground days when they would insist “Don’t link to a Drudge piece and he’ll go away!!”

    I, for one, think the Juice is doing a service in pointing out a) that Politico exists and b) they are dipshits. But I’ll stop just (just) short of blaming Cole for the Pulitzer Prize Board’s idiocy.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    December 7, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    That is so damn sad. Politico is a travesty.

  29. 29.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 7, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    @JenJen:

    But I’ll stop just (just) short of blaming Cole for the Pulitzer Prize Board’s idiocy.

    Like the Pulitzer board, composed completely of old-media types, would ever read BJ.

  30. 30.

    geg6

    December 7, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    @still liberal:

    Shorter: Where’s my pony?

    I honestly don’t know who you think you were voting for.

  31. 31.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    December 7, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    (That sound you hear is hundreds of unemployed reporters jacking a shell into the shotgun.)

    Man that’s sad. Heh. Gotta go make our resident P.P. winner scream like a banshee…

  32. 32.

    valdivia

    December 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    it’s over. close the shop. civilization cannot be saved anymore.

  33. 33.

    valdivia

    December 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    @Legalize:

    FTW!

  34. 34.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    As if on cue, a Politico reporter contacts the GOS.

  35. 35.

    freelancer

    December 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    @geg6:

    I’m still an O-bot, but still liberal has a point, at least about the financial advisors. I don’t want a pony that used to be on the board of Goldman Sacks.

    Also, if I were gay, I’d be pissed. But I’m straight, and plagued with ennui, so it all works out.

  36. 36.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    December 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    @geg6:

    Exactly. Holy shit. Jim Fucking Vandehei? One of the worst.

    That’s it folks, the 4th estate is dead.

    To quote C3PO: “We’re doomed.”

  37. 37.

    Danton

    December 7, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    They could have picked Josh Marshall, if stuff like credibility and integrity and maybe good journalism were factors.

  38. 38.

    Midnight Marauder

    December 7, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    As if on cue, a Politico reporter contacts the GOS.

    I saw that. Definitely gave me a good laugh to start the day.

    Politico Clown:

    Working on a story with another reporter about the increasing similarity between Barack Obama’s policies and Hillary Clinton’s primary platform and whether Democrats might have viewed the primary differently if they knew then what they know now. Would love to get your thoughts on the state of buyer’s remorse. Might you be able to send me something before day’s out?

    Kos:

    My god, what a stupid premise.

    I give the Pulitzers another 5-7 years of “relevancy” if they keep on going down this track.

  39. 39.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    December 7, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    I’m still an O-bot, but still liberal has a point, at least about the financial advisors. I don’t want a pony that used to be on the board of Goldman Sacks.

    You can connect any major player in the economic world to Goldman Sachs in two hops. They’re like Kevin Bacon on steroids.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    December 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    @Danton:

    if stuff like credibility and integrity and maybe good journalism were factors.

    Obviously, they are not.

  41. 41.

    tamied

    December 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Honest to god, the first thing I thought when I read this was we’re doomed. Things are not going to get better, they’re going to get worse and worse. We’re trapped in a vortex going down further into the abyss (slap!)- sorry, I’m a little bummed

  42. 42.

    PeakVT

    December 7, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Journamalism.

    ETA: Ugh, beaten to the punch, twice.

  43. 43.

    DCPlod

    December 7, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    To sum this sad state of affairs up, I give you Toby Ziegler:

    “You reported the failing grades of the Defense Minister’s twelve-year-old son! Does that even count as journalism? Does that do anything but bring ridicule on a defenseless kid? We’ve got people like you here, on cable and on the Internet, and there’s no one anywhere on the ideological spectrum that doesn’t roll their eyes when their names are spoken out loud. You know, we’ve always had free press here, we take it for granted… how can you treat it like this? You should give up your space and put another naked woman in there!”

    His rant was directed at a Russian tabloid reporter, but boy does it apply to the American media today. This is when I really miss the West Wing.

  44. 44.

    JenJen

    December 7, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    @PeakVT: Perfect illustration of the President’s comment, isn’t it? Jeebus, we’re so screwed.

  45. 45.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    December 7, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    @tamied:

    Possibly but as Redshirt sez at #23, we should now stop looking at journalism as some neutral bystander reporting on all and holding the powerful accountable. That aspect of journalism in ‘Murkin history is really only a construct of the 40 or so years that preceeded this decade.

    A look back before that and journalism was pretty much like Redshirt sez: I had my papers, you had your papers. We “reported” and slanted the news as we saw fit.

    Funny how the modern Republican party (at least the corporate wing) wanted to take us back to the Gilded Age. We’re just about there when it comes to media.

  46. 46.

    DCPlod

    December 7, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    This is to the Pulitzer Prize what Henry Kissinger was to the Nobel Peace Prize.

  47. 47.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    December 7, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    @DCPlod:

    You sir, win the internetzes for today.

  48. 48.

    JK

    December 7, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    This is the worst decision by the Pulitzer Prize Board since giving an award to that moron Maureen Dowd.

  49. 49.

    ricky

    December 7, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    From his award winning Wiki bio (soon to be abbreviated on Twitter)

    “He is married to Autumn Hanna VandeHei, a former staffer for House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.”

  50. 50.

    ET

    December 7, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Did the Pulitzers just jump the shark?

  51. 51.

    DCPlod

    December 7, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:

    You sir madam, win the internetzes for today.

    Fixed : )

  52. 52.

    Comrade Darkness

    December 7, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Hm, someone is trying to hasten the death of the news media with this move. Good riddance.

  53. 53.

    Warren Terra

    December 7, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    They’re famous for infinitely shallow overhyped “stories” on the web, but the Politico makes most of their money from selling lobbyists ads in a little-known paper version given away on Capitol Hill.

  54. 54.

    Warren Terra

    December 7, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    For the people citing Dowd’s Pulitzer, remember her Fresh Air interview: she bragged about being an awful, disinterested White House correspondent, promoted to columnist to stop her from “reporting”.

  55. 55.

    C Nelson Reilly

    December 7, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Roxanne Pulitzer winces in shame…

  56. 56.

    Ash

    December 7, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    @Warren Terra: I was just in DC this weekend and saw a paper version being sold on the street. However, the cover story looked interesting and relevant and therefore I assumed that no way could the paper version be connected to the intertubes one.

    Sadly, I was apparently wrong.

    Edit: ZOMG this is the first time I’ve been able to edit anything in months, praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

  57. 57.

    Noonan

    December 7, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    There are times when I miss journalism. Then I read something like this.

  58. 58.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    December 7, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    This is one of those rare times when I’m at a loss for words.

  59. 59.

    Peter Principle

    December 7, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    I was asked several times about had I read Sarah Palin’s book . . . it’s an indication of how our political debate doesn’t match up with what we need to do and where we need to go. – Barack Obama

    I Wonder if he realizes that could end up being the epitaph for his presidency.

  60. 60.

    Rhoda

    December 7, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    So cool. Josh Marshall and his Polk award winning online news site don’t rate; but Drudge trolling beltway bottom dwellers are always welcome.

  61. 61.

    dweb

    December 7, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    For the last three years I have believed strongly that Josh Marshall should have gotten a Pulitzer for TPM’s work on the US Attorney’s story and that Digby and or Glenn Greenwald should have been recognized for the consistent quality of their commentary.

    But it is plain to see that when it comes to membership in the treehouse, they’re not “real” journalists like the folks at Politico.

  62. 62.

    SFAW

    December 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    And no doubt, Vandehei will be nominating Glenn Beck for a Pulitzer any day now…

    Why stop there? He should nominate Beck for Nobel Peace Prize for Crazy.

    “He is married to Autumn Hanna VandeHei, a former staffer for House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.”

    Somewhere, Hunger Tallest Palin is crying.

  63. 63.

    catclub

    December 7, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    “Roxanne Pulitzer winces in shame…”

    Heck, Lilly Pulitzer the catalog merchant does as well.

  64. 64.

    Jamey

    December 7, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    As a member of the Pulitzer family (who has nothing to do with the awards board), I apologize.

    Sheesh.

  65. 65.

    Brian J

    December 7, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Yeah, really. Hell, JMM’s toenail clippings might have made a more valuable contribution that this guy.

  66. 66.

    Brian J

    December 7, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    @Warren Terra:

    Huh? Is that really true? Why would she be promoted instead of fired if her reporting was so bad?

  67. 67.

    Brian J

    December 7, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    @DCPlod:

    This.

    You know, I remember reading that Sorkin was talking to HBO about doing a show after his last NBC show failed. I also remember reading that he should have done a show about the news media instead of a late night comedy show, although I can’t remember whether that was his own suggestion or that of someone else. But I think he’d absolutely nail a show like that. I mean, Christ, the last year alone would give him enough material to last a few seasons.

  68. 68.

    geg6

    December 7, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    @SFAW:

    Why stop there? He should nominate Beck for Nobel Peace Prize for Crazy.

    Ha! I was at another site commenting about this and said that Beck and Douthat will be the next Pulitzer winners and another commenter came and replied why was I comparing the awesome, brilliant Douthat to Beck. I just said that Chunky Reese Witherspoon pretty much says it all for me in regard to Douthat.

  69. 69.

    Anne Laurie

    December 7, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    @Brian J:

    Why would [Dowd] be promoted instead of fired if her reporting was so bad?

    Same reason Sarah Palin became a political “star” — dumb people would rather look at a passably attractive woman saying the stupid shite they want to believe. It used to be that wrinkly old guys like Cronkite were supposed to have the ‘gravitas’ that noozveeyouers craved, but that was when we were still pretending there was some kind of objective, neutral reality factor to our news. If we’re just reading/watching infotainment to bolster our preexisting prejudices, why not demand cuter journamalistes to perform the set pieces?

  70. 70.

    jl

    December 7, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    So, the Pulitzer committee is too high and mighty to consider internet media for their prizes. But now they pick one of the most conventially minded reporters we have, who has often allows his personal political beliefs to interfere with his reporting, and whose current claim to fame is founding one of the most stale tired, conventionally minded, and trivial internet political sites of all, to be on their board.

    Cool.

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    December 7, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    If we’re just reading/watching infotainment to bolster our preexisting prejudices, why not demand cuter journamalistes to perform the set pieces?

    Well, I’ll sacrifice myself by offering to “interview” and “screen test” the babes.

  72. 72.

    HRA

    December 7, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    “You’ve been linking to and discussing Politico since its inception as if they were something other than a cleaned up version of Newsmax.”

    Win!

  73. 73.

    chrome agnomen

    December 7, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    in some way you’d think it would be the opposite. through the wonders of the internet, people can access all the porn they care to, on whatever level. or, if they don’t wish to descend to that, merely gaze on endless images of attractive women in various poses. one might suppose that this would satisfy that side of their id, and permit the ‘wrinkly old guys’ to have the gravitas stage. alas, it seems that ‘teh hawt’ must be served 24/7 in all venues. there is a massive failure to disconnect objectification and objectivity.

    just sayin’

  74. 74.

    SFAW

    December 7, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    chrome –
    That’s because in their world, i.e. the world of the morally upright, God-fearin’, gun-totin’, “real” Americans, it’s evilevilevil to look at naked wimmins, but getting a hard-on from watching the latest blonde weather girl, and thinkin’ about ravishin’ her, is about as red-blooded as a ‘Murican man can get.

    There’s an old joke about a guy who goes to the shrink, the shrink shows him a series of ink blots, and the guy always sees some nekkid woman in a provocative pose, and boy, what he’s going to do to her! When the shrink comments that the guy seems fixated on sex, the guy points out that it’s the shrink showing him all the dirty pictures.

    Also.

  75. 75.

    MrGronkle

    December 8, 2009 at 1:04 am

    Some of you are only now discovering that the Pulitizer is a worthless travesty? Spend a few minutes researching how Walter Duranty, writing for the NYTimes, covered up the Ukrainian famine engineered by Stalin and was dutifully awarded a Pultizer for his efforts. Since then a Pulitzer has been a mark of shame.

  76. 76.

    theod

    December 8, 2009 at 9:46 am

    The Pulitzer is an insider award that has lost its clout for the reading public for many reasons but mostly the sheer number awarded every year. It doesn’t seem exclusive, and it doesn’t make anybody buy more papers. An industry in serious, forced transition will make a lot of noise about it, however, because (a) it still can and (b) it seems like good news where so little exists. Don’t worry about it, as you can’t name last year’s Pulitzer winners anyway, unless you got one yourself. Worry more about the infantile media that Obama references above.

  77. 77.

    JayDee

    December 8, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Real journalism is approaching extinction in the US for the very same reason that many animal species become extinct.

    Isolation and inbreeding exacerbates undesirable genetic traits which eventually destroy the population.

    In the case of journalism, it’s “intellectual” isolation and inbreeding, but the result is the same.

    William Kristol – Need I say more?

  78. 78.

    JayDee

    December 8, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Real journalism is approaching extinction in the US for the very same reason that many animal species become extinct.

    Isolation and inbreeding exacerbates undesirable genetic traits which eventually destroy the population.

    In the case of journalism, it’s “intellectual” isolation and inbreeding, but the result is the same.

    William Kristol – Need I say more?

  79. 79.

    SFAW

    December 8, 2009 at 10:23 am

    William Kristol – Need I say more?

    That’s already too much.

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