So, everyone’s in a dither over one of this year’s Pulitzer-winning AP photos. Michelle Malkin has a lovely roundup of the riteous indignation, as she usually does. She submits a couple alternatives, which, I have to say, aren’t good ones.

The citation reads:

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to the Associated Press Staff for its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.

Her first idea, the picture of the guy with the Marlboro, is a portrait, not breaking news. The other one, of the injured soldier being helped out of a building, is a wonderful picture, as I mentioned here, but it’s not really breaking news. News didn’t break every time a soldier got shot in the leg. Plus, it isn’t a really good photograph. The subject is better than the photo is. This is a great picture. I have to say.

None of this, however, changes the fact that the one in question, of the Iraqi government workers being shot in the middle of the street, was, as Power Line says, The Pulitzer Prize for felony murder…, nor does it change any of the numbers that LGF has here.

Date: Apr 5th, 2005 · Comments RSS · Tags: War and Peace