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• Saturday, June 9, 2007 08:58 AM

  Joan, articles like this will keep the Pulitzers alive

  Who the hell would ever turn to the Internet for journalism? Look at this -- it's all attitude. There are barely any facts at all. The only research they did was inside their heads. And they didn't even reach very deeply for the few ideas they were able to fish out.

  They could have done some real journalism, for example looking into just how many prisoners get early release in LA County jails and who those prisoners are and why they get early release.

  There is a real question here -- is Paris being discriminated against by being made to serve her full sentence? Is she only being forced to serve the full sentence because she's too high profile to get early release?

  This early release program is extremely embarassing for the tough on crime types who build their reps by sending more people to jail than the jails were built to hold.

  So it's easy to see why they don't want journalists asking questions about who really serves a full sentence in Los Angeles County.

  Is Paris being made to serve her full sentence because those tough on crime types want to create the impression that serving a full sentence still is the norm?

  But investigating these types of issues would be taking the hard way out. The Pulitzers are for people who do journalism the hard way.

  The Webbys are for people who haven't the slightest desire to do journalism the hard way, and wouldn't know how even if they wanted to.

  —Anonymous
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