Pulitzer Prize Board recognizes ‘tireless efforts’ of student journalists covering college protests
The HillMay 02
Gaza Protests: Pulitzer Board Recognizes Student Journalists
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The Facts
The Pulitzer Prize Board has praised the work of student journalists who have been covering the US campus protests "in the face of great personal and academic risk."
The Board specifically acknowledged Columbia University's student journalists' "extraordinary real-time reporting" under what it described as "difficult and dangerous circumstances."
The Spin
Narrative A
The Pulitzer Prize Board's laudatory statement for the student journalists' courageous coverage of the campus protests is a much-needed gesture. It comes amid propaganda and doles of negativity aimed at the protesters and underscores the significance of their real-time reporting, emphasizing press freedom amid escalating campus unrest nationwide.
Narrative B
The haloed Pulitzer Prize Board's appreciation of student journalists could have been considered a gesture made in good faith, but for the apparent orchestration of the protests they were covering. Arab financial influence is clearly at play in US campuses, which can't be hidden behind the cheap thrills stoked by "student journalists."
Nerd narrative
There's a 32% chance that there will be fewer than 400 public four-year colleges in the US by 2050, according to the Metaculus prediction community.