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Philip_Airtime said:
With all due respect, Fred, you have never worked in public radio, so please refrain from commenting on a fjeld you know nothing about. There is a clear firewall between the editorial and funding arm in public radio journalism. I have fought many a battle during my 30 year career to keep that wall from being breached. It's even stronger at the network level. And getting awards is pathetic? I think the fact that our industry recognizes the good work of broadcast journalists is laudable. Since you apparently seem to value the work of newspapers over radio, I ask you then if you think the Pulitzers are pathetic?
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You don't know me. You don't know my resume. Fact is I have worked in public radio. I just never bought the party line. I realize that makes me unusual. As the saying goes, public radio's culture favors diversity in everything but thought.

The fact that you "fought many a battle" to keep the wall from being breached indicates management does often try to breach it, and often succeeds. Did you win all those battles? And how about the ones when you weren't there?

Pulitzers were first. That makes them less pathetic. Still Joe Pulitzer was a media ho and scandal monger who late in life decided to salvage his image. Notice that Pulitzers don't recognize any aspect of so-called "broadcast journalism." Still photography, yes. Cartooning, yes. Historians, yes. Plays and musicals, yes. Novels, yes. Even symphonies. Categories for awards have been added and dropped over the years but nothing related to broadcasting was ever added. So broadcasters had to come up with their pathetic imitation awards.

A real newsman doesn't need trophies or certificates for self-validation. Listeners generally don't care. What the news biz should really be concerned about is the award they get from the audience. Polls rank the news media's credibility right down there with lawyers and car salesmen.
But, instead they pat each other on the back.
 
FredLeonard said:
Notice that Pulitzers don't recognize any aspect of so-called "broadcast journalism."
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Of course not. Pulitzer hated broadcasting. It made his business obsolete.

They also don't give Murrows for print. So what?

If awards don't matter, then Pulitzers don't matter.
 
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