Interesting juxtaposition in Sunday’s New York Times.
From the Public Editor’s column about the Pulitzer Prize celebration at the New York Times last Monday:
I was struck by how well-tuned the whole affair seemed to be. At other newspapers, celebrations of Pulitzer Prizes have a more improvised character, as if slammed together in surprise and jubilation. But not at The Times, which has won 106 such awards and so stages the festivities roughly the way Punxsutawney Phil prepares for Groundhog Day — with a heady acceptance of destiny and a solemn respect for procedure.
If there was a mildly deflating note on this occasion, it was that The Times had won only two prizes. Certainly, though, this was no embarrassment. Mr. Keller announced that The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, perennial rivals for the honors, had each won just one prize.
Apparently, that wasn’t enough self-affirmation. Sunday’s Times also featured a full-page ad with the headline:
THE NEW YORK TIMES WINS TWO 2011 PULITZER PRIZES
The New York Times and Members of Its Staff Have Won 106 Pulitzer Prizes – Far More Than Any Other Newspaper
Got that? Far More.
Methinks the Grey Lady doth protest too much.
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Sure, they have 106 of them. But maybe the trophies they get are smaller than others?
Perhaps they also have an inferiority complex, in view of the initial response to their paywall. You’d think they’d have learned of the futility of it from their attempt at it several years ago, when they charged for access to their “marquee” columnists.
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2011/04/impact_of_paywall_on_nytimesco_1.html
Yeah, Alan, it’s all very complex at the Times these days.