No it did not deserve it. There are ethics, or used to be ethics, in journalism

Apr 20, 2017
2:35:15pm

RebelScum All-American

and multiple of those were breached by the Trib in investigating and reporting the story. No organization breaching such journalistic ethics should be awarded any type of prize, let alone the Pulitzer.

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The article should make everybody think twice about anything they read in the trib.

cougfanblue Torpedo

4/20/17 2:24pm

The Trib is undeniably biased against the instititutional LDS church

Linescratcher

4/20/17 2:27pm

Too many people mistake their bias for being "fair."

cougfanblue

4/20/17 2:30pm

Some believe you can't be biased against the power, and in Utah, the power

SandYFan

4/20/17 2:31pm

No. Its clearly bias. But being biased doesn't preclude them from being right.

Linescratcher

4/20/17 3:01pm

No it did not deserve it. There are ethics, or used to be ethics, in journalism

RebelScum

4/20/17 2:35pm

tbh, a plea to journalistic ethics rings hollow

Linescratcher

4/20/17 3:11pm

They wrote a hit piece, and you think it's Pulitzer worthy?

jdub

4/20/17 3:15pm

if it was such a one-sided hit piece that the church/byu couldn't weigh in on

Linescratcher

4/20/17 3:20pm

First of all, the Trib did not discover this, they became aware of it as BYU

RebelScum

4/20/17 4:17pm

The whole tone of the article is that of being appalled that someone

Caboom

4/20/17 2:35pm

Could have won a Pulitzer for investigating ute swimgate. But they hardly

Cougar76

4/20/17 2:42pm

We should "Michelle Peralta" Rolly's facebook and twitter accounts.

IndependentGeorge

4/20/17 2:45pm

we shoudl send him links to CB posts from 15 years ago and ask him to report it

v1k0u6

4/20/17 2:49pm

Who knew that JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells was the absolute brains of that column?!??

ByuMba90

4/20/17 2:50pm

It's hardly "an article", you make it sound like they wrote an entire

StealingHome

4/20/17 2:57pm

Here's the thing about the Trib - it's a piece of crap.

Texas Hammer

4/20/17 3:01pm

I think twice about anything I read on any news site anywhere.

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