BloodhoundBlog: Will Pulitzer Come Calling?
The BloodhoundBlog is a phenomenon; read it and you’ll become addicted to the prose, the passion, and the gem-like jewels of news. It now has a cult following and it has achieved pinnacles of success in online media. But will Pulitzer’s new criteria open the door to the likes of the “dawg??”
More here on the Pulitzers.
It is obvious by now that the best writing in the world is being written for electronic media only. Excepting Geno, we wouldn’t qualify for any awards anyway, but it remains that the Pulitzer committee is not quite ready to tiptoe the whole way into the twenty-first century. It is stretching itself only so far as to consider prose that is being committed to pretend paper. If you can hang in cyberspace without clinging in craven desperation to atoms — even purely imaginary atoms — your talents will not be considered. The Pulitzer Prize will remain a celebration of obsolescent relics by irrelevant antiques. Sic semper tyrannosauris.
Ken Montville - The MD Suburbs of DC says:
Greg, You’re too hard on the poor Pulitzer committee. All things in time.
Can you imagine if people had to sift through all the blogs for Pulitzer material? How could you distinguish fiction from non-fiction from any other category?
You just need to start your own award with a pile of money. After all, you have a “cult following”.
December 13, 2008 — 6:36 pm