Pulitzer, Schmulitzer... Columbia U still thinks its too good for ROTC

The news that the Pulitzer Prize Board from Columbia University's Journalism School will now accept online content for consideration for Pulitzer Prizes from news outlets that also publish print newspapers is being given all kinds of kudos from the cluck-cluck crowd. Pulitzer hired guy Sig Gissler said his bosses (The Pulitzer Board) decided to make the change after a year-long study (!!!) by its online committee. "It's a very significant change," Gissler said. "It reflects the growing importance of online content and the evolution of newspapers. At the same time, print remains very important." (WSJ, Pulitzer) Gaak!  Personally I prefer Jeff Jarvis' characterization of the move at buzzmachine: "whimpy." For the record: Quillnews, though a grad of Columbia J School, remains ineligible for the award. But even if Quillnews was qualified for any of its 500 posts in 2004-05 by having killed numerous trees for the paper to print the stories on, I'd still turn any prize from Columbia down faster than Shasheen Littlefeather!  (Check out this Oscar highlight!) Until Columbia and the rest of the head-in-the-sand, pretentious holier-than-thou colleges get ROTC back on campus, these guys deserve to be shunned as shills for ingrates and worse. (CS, CS2, ROTC Advocates, suA)