Washington Post, Guardian win Pulitzers in public service for coverage of NSA surveillance

[The Straight Story]

NEW YORK (AP) — Washington Post, Guardian win Pulitzers in public service for coverage of NSA surveillance.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/washington-post-guardian-win-pulitzers-public-service-coverage-nsa-surveillance

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Yay! Thanks again, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald. K&R

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. I'm glad to hear this. Let this also be a reminder...

The people who tell you that Snowden brought us nothing new--these people are either ignnorant-and-loud, or they're liars.

[cui bono]

3. Excellent.

We need more informative and important reporting such as this.

Remember what printing only what the administration wanted or leaked brought us... it's still a mess over there and our troops are still suffering the consequences.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Pulitzers are just boxes of strippers tears

that we all know about in a garage.

[WillyT]

5. Woo Hoo !!! - K & R !!!

[pa28]

6. Excellent choice by the Pulitzer committee. K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

7. To Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and the Fourth Amendment . . .

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[BlueCheese]

8. The only logical choice.

[nxylas]

9. The Pulitzer committee are racists and Paulbots

Oh yeah...

[Divernan]

10. The Pulitzer Board members are standing tall!

The Pulitzer Board -one of the last bastions of independence not cowed or blackmailed into going along with massive, mindless, cripplingly expensive NSA spying. Same for the Washington Post and the UK Guardian!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/nsa-pulitzer-guardian-washington-post_n_5148015.html

The Pulitzer board's decision to honor NSA coverage, and specifically to single out the reporting as a public service, makes a strong statement about the importance of the worldwide surveillance revelations, especially given that Snowden has been charged under the Espionage Act for leaking the classified documents.

The Pulitzer committee praised the Post's "authoritative and insightful reports" as helping "the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security." The committee described the The Guardian US, the New York-based newsroom of the British newspaper and the one that was eligible for the prize, as having sparked "a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy."

On Friday, four journalists at the forefront of the NSA reporting -- Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman and Ewan MacAskill -- were honored with the prestigious Polk Award for their coverage.

But the Pulitzer board did not distinguish between individual journalists, instead awarding its public service prize to the news organizations responsible for the initial reports on how the NSA had secretly collected millions of Americans' phone records and Internet data.

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch.....nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. To hell with those two Paulite Libertarian rags!!

And the Paulite Libertarian run Pulitzer Committee!!

[WillyT]

13. LOL !!!