Apr 17, 2014 03:00 am | Paul R. Pillar
Prize-awarding
committees sometimes use their decisions to make some sort of political
or policy statement. The committee that bestows the Nobel Peace Prize
seems to have done so with increasing frequency in recent years, giving
the prize to recipients who represent current aspirations more than past
accomplishments. One risk of this practice, beyond any controversial or
questionable aspects of the particular statement being made, is that it
debases the award itself by moving it farther from any connection with
actual accomplishment. Those who award Pulitzer prizes have now done so
by giving this year's prize in the public service category to the Washington Post and Guardian US
for publishing purloined secrets about the National Security Agency.
And the Pulitzer people have done so for motives less noble than those
of the Nobel people.read morehttp://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/the-prize-fencing-stolen-goods-10263
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