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Guardian and WaPo Receive Pulitzers For Snowden Coverage

Posted by Unknown on from the pulitzer-prize-board-added-to-terrorist-organization-list dept.

Late Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize board announced (PDF) the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners. The public service prize was awarded to the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Washington Post was given the award for its role in revealing widespread surveillance by the NSA, "...marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security," and the Guardian for sparking "...a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy." Snowden released a statement praising the Pulitzer board: "Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognizes was work of vital public importance. This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. "

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  1. Good by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Snowden deserves a Nobel prize too. And Clapper and the other NSA leaders deserve prison time.

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    1. Re:Good by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, and Clapper and the NSA leadership probably aren't going to get prison time either. But they still deserve it.

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    2. Re:Good by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, it's called the peace prize, not the freedom prize or the opposed oppression prize.

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    3. Re:Good by 14erCleaner · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Snowden deserves a Nobel prize too.

      Or at least a mention in the Pulitzer announcement. The way the announcement phrased it, you'd think the journalists dug out this information on their own, rather than having it dumped in their laps.

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  2. Re:Congratulations are in order. by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What have you done to make it more painful? Do you even vote? How about writing some letters? Or giving money to a candidate?

    In the end it's simple. Apathy is the ultimate enemy of freedom.

  3. it still amazes and saddens me... by Connie_Lingus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that almost everyone I speak to in real life thinks Snowden is a criminal.

    he embodies everything people "say" they value in a democracy, yet they want to put him in jail and throw away the key because, basically, he embarrassed some allegedly criminal senior government officials.

    clueless.

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    1. Re:it still amazes and saddens me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      He *is* a criminal. He is still right though.

      http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminal

      This is going to be tough but George Washington is considered a criminal too and Benedict Arnold is considered a patriot, in England. Because in that country under their laws they are.

      Most people still believe in the fairness of our justice system. They probably do not realize the gov would make an example of him. Until there are a few hollywood style movies making him look like a super hero. Most people will side against him.

    2. Re:it still amazes and saddens me... by Arker · · Score: 4, Informative

      Snowden actually revealed nothing publicly. All those documents were entrusted to journalists. It's the WaPo, the Guardian, the NYT and so forth that decide which ones to publish and when, not him.

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    3. Re:it still amazes and saddens me... by SpankiMonki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There many international laws prohibiting spying. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations certainly applies - specifically, Articles 22, 24, and 27.

  4. Re:Congratulations are in order. by Vitriol+Angst · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They've gone after him -- for everything but actual offenses to the Constitution.

    Benghazi, birth certificates, communism -- it's not his fault the alleged opposition party has bad aim.

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  5. That's nice by koan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What did Snowden get?

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