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Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda

MediaTricks | March 23, 2023

Pulitzer Prize Vietnam photo, used by anti-communists, hiding the fact that the man executed was a death squad leader.

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Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists? Here's the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war against a communist takeover:

There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. The film is even harder to look at.

It ran on the front page of the New York Times, cropped from the original to fill the space and make its impact even more immediate.

And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of this photo. The Vietnamese people were abandoned by the Americans, whose cut-and-run evacuation from the Saigon embassy rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout. After that, the re-education camps rolled in, the boat people launched into the high seas, and the killing fields of Cambodia began.

Just one problem, though: The context was missing, and that context mattered. The guy who got shot, who went by the nom de guerre Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who had just gotten done massacring 34 innocent people.

It's amazing what the press got away with on that one. And it serves as a reminder that pictures can be distorted and manipulated without context, without even Photoshop. While the photographer, Eddie Adams, was blameless, as he was just doing his job, the way the photo was presented, by broadcasters and newspaper editors, was not. This is one sorry incident that the left got away with. They showered their Pulitzers and watched the protests begin. One only wonders what the little kid who survived the massacre to become an admiral must have thought. Now that it's out that he survived this psychopath, his life is living testimony to that reality.

Not only was the executed man a communist death squad leader who killed 36 innocent people that very day, he had also previously murdered the wife and six children of one of the colleagues of the man executing him.

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Yellow Journalism

MediaTricks | February 21, 2022

“You furnish the pictures; I will furnish the war”
William Randolph Hearst

Yellow Journalism infographic:

YELLOW JOURNALISM

Yellow journalism refers to newspaper reporting in the mid to late 1890s that embraced dramatic headlines and exaggerated storylines about crime, corruption, sex, and scandal in order to increase circulation numbers and revenue.

The pinnacle of Yellow Journalism is how the newspapers reported the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine off the coast of Cuba. Editors, like William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, knew that an international conflict would significantly boost sales and revenue. So to help encourage a war, they used their newspapers and exaggerated headlines to sway public opinion against Spain and in favor of war.

Comment thread:

Commenter 1 writes: If that is the same Pulitzer that the prize is named after, any journalist with any amount of integrity would be embarrassed to win it.

Commenter 2 writes: It is. The most deserved of The Pulitzer Prize is always the biggest fake news reporter.

Glenn Greenwald writes: That large media outlets showered themselves with Pulitzers and that is, effectively, how the Pulitzer Committee works for feeding the Trump/Russia hysteria and unhinged conspiracy theories was one of the most vivid illustrations of how wrong the press went in the Trump era.

Aaron Maté writes:
New. The US media's Russiagate reckoning goes far beyond the Steele dossier. Here's a list of five Pulitzer winners from the New York Times & Washington Post that also relied on dubious sources and falsehoods to push the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative.

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