The 2017 Foolitzer Prize

I think we can all agree the 2016 Presidential Election was turbulent.  Even before Donald J. Trump was elected president he was critical of the mainstream media and never shied away from letting his supporters know it at his huge rallies and through his direct communication with the nation via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram rather than speaking through the stenographers and lap dogs for the Democrat Party.

Journalists have rejected the importance of the sacredness of facts jockeying for top billing in trendlines on Twitter to become celebrities in their own right.  Jim Acosta, call your office.

What they fail to realize is they are not just writing for the moment, but for history.  Every time they distort facts, leak national security information, pay for fake dossiers or shill for Democrats they weaken their byline.

Blogger friend Don Surber wants to “weed out the bad actors from all the superior people who have devoted their lives speaking truth to power” and has devised The Foolitzer Prize to be awarded to the best fake news of 2017.

He is asking readers to nominate the stories, personnel and news organizations deserving of “special recognition for their terrible works this year.”

The Pulitzer Prize was established 100 years ago and was meant to recognize “the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by any American newspaper”.  The test was “strict accuracy, terseness, the accomplishment of some public good commanding public attention and respect.”

The liberal Left idolizes yellow journalism and muckraking.  British author Sydney Brooks (1872-1937) noted in the weekly journal The Living Age, Vol. 272, page 67 The American Yellow Press, “journalism is a contest of madmen for the primacy of the sewer.”

I hope you’ll hop over to Don’s blog and join in on the fun to nominate your favorite sewer rat journalist.

Drum Roll, Please!

Years ago when I first started blogging, I encountered a fellow traveler in the conservative blogosphere who worked at the Charleston Daily Mail.  He is the author of Exceptional Americans, Exceptional Americans 2 and Trump the Press:  Don Surber’s Take on How the Pundits Blew the 2016 Republican Race. 

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit praised Trump the Press noting, "You should also listen to Surber, one of the few who clearly saw the Trump Train coming. Scholars of this election should read his Trump the Press. But probably won’t."

Don is also the proprietor of the popular blog Don Surber.

Don’s fourth book, Trump the Establishment: The Elitists Never Learned in 2016, just published and is available on Amazon.

“Trump the Establishment uses Surber’s quick wit and deep research to chronicle President Trump’s spectacular rise. Trump’s was an asymmetrical campaign that fooled critics and pleased his supporters. 

From Clinton’s questionable activities to the media’s inability to grasp the difference between Trump the celebrity and Trump the CEO, Surber shows how Trump challenged and beat the establishment on his own terms. Voters in thirty states chose to dump the status quo in Washington, and Make America Great Again. 

Trump won despite Clinton’s massive campaign war chest. He won despite overwhelmingly negative news coverage. He won despite losing every debate. He won despite a tumultuous personal and financial past, and still, the elitists don’t understand why.”

I hope you’ll consider buying his book.  You’ll be glad you did.