The Pulitzer Prizes Have Become a Sad Joke

Final week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified feminine Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, gained the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a sequence of essays about Gaza in The New Yorker.

It’s unsurprising, as a result of the Pulitzer Prizes have turn out to be an irremediable joke.

You’d assume that the Pulitzers, administered and awarded by Columbia College, would need to restore its tattered repute after awarding a slew of debunked items that unfold the Russia collusion hoax. They went in one other course.

The Pulitzer for “public service,” for example, went to the leftist propaganda website ProPublica for “exposing the deadly penalties of abortion bans.” ProPublica is probably the nation’s main purveyor of Potemkin journalism, which entails dressing up political propaganda with neutral-sounding journalistic verbiage to create the impression that you just’ve performed real reporting.

Its abortion tales are maybe the sloppiest and sleaziest of its catalog, even worse than its string of pitiful smears towards Supreme Court docket justices. In a wholesome atmosphere, journalism colleges would use them as prime examples of hackery and conjecture.

Take their award-winning story on Amber Thurman. In August 2022, the 28-year-old Georgia girl checked herself right into a suburban Atlanta hospital emergency room, complaining of extreme ache. She was affected by an an infection attributable to the stays of dual fetuses she had aborted by capsule 5 days earlier.

The very first thing you’ll discover when studying ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters is that they fail to supply a single on-the-record supply who maintains that abortion legal guidelines slowed or stopped medical doctors from offering medical assist for Thurman.

Not one.

Certainly, a reader should plow by to the 57th paragraph of the article to search out this throwaway line: “It isn’t clear from the information out there why medical doctors waited to supply (emergency assist).”

Not clear? That’s a outstanding concession to make deep right into a story. The headline, in spite of everything, guarantees to show that “Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care.” Have, not might have.

Anyway, by “not clear,” the reporters imply no testimony exists to help the implication {that a} dilation and curettage process, wherein the liner of the uterus is scraped to take away tissue, was delayed as a result of medical doctors had been nervous about Georgia’s abortion regulation.

Each time the story hits a juncture at which any actual reporter would really feel compelled to supply corroboration, ProPublica switches to interviewing anonymous “OB-GYNs in states that outlawed abortion” or pro-abortion activists who supply politically motivated guesswork.

We name {that a} “column” within the enterprise.

To confuse readers, ProPublica repeatedly conflates miscarriages with elective abortions. And right here’s the factor: The fetuses had already been destroyed. There was completely no authorized foundation for any physician, not even one confused concerning the supposed ambiguities of abortion legal guidelines, to fail to provide Thurman all of the care she wanted. That looks like a significant truth that ought to have been talked about someplace in a 3,400-word investigative piece.

I don’t care the place you stand on abortion, that’s not journalism. But, that is the kind of hackery that wins you a Pulitzer today.

The one inarguable reality within the Thurman case is that she died from issues attributable to abortion drugs. That’s the headline. That’s the buried lede. Realizing this, ProPublica feels compelled to guarantee readers that there are solely “uncommon issues” from abortion drugs—“extraordinarily uncommon” even.

Certainly, there’s now mounting proof that mifepristone is much less protected than the Meals and Drug Administration has led ladies to imagine. When two pro-life researchers on the Ethics and Public Coverage Middle reviewed medical health insurance claims from over 800,000 chemical abortions, they discovered that issues occurred in about 1 in 10 circumstances.

Possibly they need to have gained the Pulitzer Prize.

However ProPublica, funded by a deep-pocketed progressive group, exists to create pretend tales for politicians to make use of as oppo materials. Chances are you’ll keep in mind when many political specialists assured us that the Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group choice and ensuing state-level abortion limitations would perpetually sink all the GOP?

Nicely, lower than every week after the Thurman story hit, Axios reported that Senate Democrats would launch a “blitz on emergency abortion care this week after ProPublica reporting on dying of Georgia girl.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris talked about Thurman on many events.

It must be stated that ideological bias doesn’t stop a journalist from making arguments that depend on info. It’s implausible, nevertheless, that any real journalist might presumably imagine ProPublica’s Thurman story was effectively reported or that Abu Toha’s essays enlightened anybody.

And the truth that Pulitzers reward this sort of clear hackery solely additional destroys their already battered credibility.

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