Out of all of the journalism that happened this year, who would have thought that the world of journalism would reward the POS Rolling Stone for the article that got General McCrystal fired based on what his staff told the reporter.
Michael Hastings won the Polk Award for magazine reporting for his story that recounted how Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff made scornful comments about Obama administration officials. Obama removed the four-star general from his command in June, saying McChrystal’s comments undermined civilian control of the military.
How intellectually vacant is the world of journalism if they think this is a laudatory event?
That was a rhetorical question; right?
The next thing we’ll read about is how Liberals will be presented some award for turning in Conservatives….. This is really pathetic, at best.
OT beat me to it!
“…The Pope may launch his Interdict,
The Union its decree,
But the bubble is blown and the bubble is pricked
By Us and such as We.
Remember the battle and stand aside
While Thrones and Powers confess
That King over all the children of pride
Is the Press, the Press, the Press!”
— Rudyard Kipling
it is truly sickening to watch the media circle jerk.
So, one can win a “Polk Award” for reporting on the conversations heard in a bar? Wow, how prestigious that award must be. It deserves a spot up on the shelf, right next to the Nobel Peace Prize given to a community organizer. One whose sole contribution to whirled peas has been to step back, observe and……………go skiing.