Wednesday, April 3, 2019

An Open Letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee: Don't Reward Fake News


An Open Letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee: Don't Reward Fake News

by Alan M. Dershowitz  •  April 3, 2019 at 10:00 am
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  • Julie K. Brown refused to investigate and/or publish highly credible information that undercut the simplistic and largely false narrative fed her by her biased sources. I know, because I have been providing her with much of the documents and information she chose to bury rather than report.
  • Here is the truthful narrative Brown refused to report. Every fact can be documented.... The only problem is that Secret Service and other records conclusively proved that none of them was ever on that Island and that the Gores didn't even know Epstein.... Yet her own employment records prove that she was well above the age of consent when she claims these liaisons occurred— in the unlikely event they ever occurred at all.
  • A careful review of these records led Giuffre's own lawyer to conclude — in a lawfully recorded conversation— that it would have been impossible for me to have been where she falsely claimed to have had sex with me, and that his client's accusations against me were "wrong," "simply wrong."... Even Giuffre's best friend said that Giuffre told her she had never accused me until she was "pressured" by her lawyers to do so.
  • So shame on Brown. Shame on the Miami Herald. And shame on the Pulitzer Committee if it fails to investigate Brown's reporting and encourages such fake news and shoddy journalism by rewarding it.
(Image source: Vladimir Babenko/Wikimedia Commons)
Among the leading candidates for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism is the Miami Herald and its reporter Julie K. Brown for its series on the Jeffrey Epstein case. The series, however, was not based on rigorous and objective investigation, but rather on one sided, and largely false tips from self-interested lawyers who used the series to their financial advantage. Brown refused to investigate and/or publish highly credible information that undercut the simplistic and largely false narrative fed her by her biased sources. I know, because I have been providing her with much of the documents and information she chose to bury rather than report. Had she reported this contradictory material, she would have endangered the Pulitzer Prize she has been aiming to win. The Pulitzer Committee should not reward such biased and result oriented "reporting" by giving her the prize.
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