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2008 Pulitzer Prizes

post #1 of 19
4/6/08 at 5:50am
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Coming on Monday. Journalism finalists have been leaked:

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Investigative

1. The New York Times -- Toxic Pipeline
2. Chicago Tribune -- Product Safety
3. The Denver Post -- Destruction of Evidence

Explanatory

1. The New York Times -- DNA
2. The Boston Globe -- Global Warming
3. The Oregonian -- Computer chips

Breaking News

1. The Washington Post -- Virginia Tech
2. The New York Times -- Bronx fire
3. Idaho Statesman -- Larry Craig

National Reporting

1. The Washington Post
2. The New York Times
3. Chicago Tribune

The much-praised Walter Reed Army Hospital series in The Washington Post is a Public Service finalist, while The New York Times is among the finalists in the International category for its Iraq reporting. Scott Templeton of the Baltimore Sun is among the nominees for local reporting for his work on the serial killer whose crimes against the homeless gripped the city, and helped propel mayor Thomas Carcetti to a gubernatorial victory.
My worthless picks/predictions:

Fiction: Tree of Smoke or Then We Came To The End. Maybe Oscar Dio or the last Zuckerman by Roth.
Non Fiction: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Drama: August: Osage County
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post #2 of 19
4/6/08 at 8:49pm
No Scott Templeton?
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post #3 of 19
4/6/08 at 8:50pm
Thread Starter 
Did you even read the post?
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post #4 of 19
4/6/08 at 8:52pm
Word has there was some bad blood in the Sun when it came to Templeton. Dunno if it was true or not. But their crime reporter got shipped over to the boonies.
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post #5 of 19
4/6/08 at 9:12pm
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Did you even read the post?
Lord, my total bad. No way of saving face either. Just completely missed that paragraph. Awesome.
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post #6 of 19
4/6/08 at 10:35pm
I thought I was going to be the first swinging dick to bring Templeton to the thread. It's actually good to see that I'm wrong.
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post #7 of 19
4/7/08 at 5:58pm
Thread Starter 
"Maybe someday you win a Pulitzer on this. And maybe someday you gotta give it back."

I'll start with the coolest fucking thing first. Special Citation, Bob Dylan. Fuckin' A.

Journalism:

Public Service - Washington Post, Walter Reed Coverage
Breaking News - Washington Post, Virginia Tech
Investigative Reporting - New York Times, toxic chemicals in products from China and Chicago Tribune, faulty government oversight in child safety products

Arts:

Fiction - Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Dio by Junot Diaz
Nonfiction - What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
Drama - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Biography- Eden's Outcasts, a biography of Louisa May Alcott by John Matteson
General Nonfiction - The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
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post #8 of 19
4/8/08 at 10:53am
"Editorial Cartooning-Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Tom Batiuk of King Features for a sequence in his cartoon strip "Funky Winkerbean" that portrays a woman's poignant battle with breast cancer..."

Pulitzer just jumped the shark.
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post #9 of 19
4/8/08 at 11:49am
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"Editorial Cartooning-Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Tom Batiuk of King Features for a sequence in his cartoon strip "Funky Winkerbean" that portrays a woman's poignant battle with breast cancer..."
Please, PLEASE tell me that this is a joke.
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post #10 of 19
4/8/08 at 11:54am
Sad but true.
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post #11 of 19
4/8/08 at 12:45pm
When is film critic Jay Sherman going to get his lifetime achievement award?
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post #12 of 19
4/8/08 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
"Editorial Cartooning-Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Tom Batiuk of King Features for a sequence in his cartoon strip "Funky Winkerbean" that portrays a woman's poignant battle with breast cancer..."

Pulitzer just jumped the shark.
Hahaha. Oh, God. I didn't even bother to see who was shortlisted for Editorial cartooning. I feel even worse for starting that thread now.
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post #13 of 19
4/8/08 at 1:40pm
Sorry, Rath...I tried not to do this. I tried. I did. But failed.

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Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
Tom Batiuk (Northeastern Ohio represent!) can lay it on pretty thick sometimes with this cancer and grief storyline, but I'm surprised at how affecting it's been, especially near the end. I've always enjoyed this comic strip, primarily because Batiuk's been unafraid to deal with "real-world" issues in an honest way.

In any case, far better than "For Better or Worse" and, in my unfounded opinion, proof that the comic strip still has some viability as an art form left.
http://chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102317
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post #14 of 19
4/8/08 at 1:54pm
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It's okay. The thread turned into something great.

Also, Dio is a first novel. That's got to be tough.
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post #15 of 19
4/8/08 at 2:09pm
There was an article on Newsarama last week about Batiuk going to visit Siegel's (or Schuster's? Don't know, don't care.) childhood home in preparation for a storyline about one of the Winkerbean cast getting to write Superman.

Even writing the above sentence withered me with exhaustion.
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post #16 of 19
4/8/08 at 2:33pm
Shit -- Lois Lane's going to end up getting AIDS from a blood transfusion or something. Superman, despite all of his powers, isn't going to be able to help her. Then, he's going to lose her ashes at the airport.

Fucking Batiuk.
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post #17 of 19
4/8/08 at 2:39pm
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And Perry White loses his sight.
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post #18 of 19
4/9/08 at 11:45am
Two week arc devoted to Perry raking leaves.
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post #19 of 19
4/9/08 at 11:51am
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Also, Dio is a first novel. That's got to be tough.
Wao. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
http://chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106961
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