1619 Project Creator Says Her Series
Is ‘Journalism’ and ‘Not a History’
Washington Free Beacon,
by
Josh Christenson
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/11/2020 4:09:19 AM
The creator of the controversial 161 commentary series on the impact of slavery in America, is now saying her work was meant to be "journalism" and "not a history."
"The 1619 Project is not a history," Nikole Hannah-Jones said in an MSNBC interview on Sunday. "It is a work of journalism that examines the modern and ongoing legacy of slavery."
Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project last week, but the initiative has been frequently criticized for its inaccuracies by historians.
The startling admission here is that our journalist think they have a license to lie. I was taught that as a journalist you were bound to report facts, obviously what these people are being taught is nothing akin to journalism. it is how to disseminate propaganda and the fact that the rest of the press would go along with repeating these lies is disgusting. The Pulitizer Prize is now confirmed to be a prize for fiction not journalism.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cThree 5/11/2020 4:41:37 AM (No. 407595)
Maybe she should choose the word lying Adam Schiff used when caught making up the supposed contents of Trump's "Ukraine phone call." Schiff decided to call his fiction a "parody."
MS Hannah-Jones could say her Pulitzer Prize-winning work wasn't history, it was parody.
That would be closer to the truth.
And not for nothing, the big tech Truth Minders should take down the 1619 Project for not meeting "community standards."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JL80863 5/11/2020 4:59:56 AM (No. 407596)
Fiction is often called journalism these days.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/11/2020 6:13:47 AM (No. 407613)
I despise liberals with hyphenated last names!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/11/2020 7:30:27 AM (No. 407645)
This captures the essence of the problem in America. Past generations revered truth which I must add, is singular.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/11/2020 7:41:24 AM (No. 407651)
Journalism? How about BS on Steroids with a heavy dose of Agenda Politics along with all the typical Liberal Lies?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/11/2020 7:59:36 AM (No. 407670)
So looking forward to the NYT "journalism" on
Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Shiff, et. al.
No, wait!?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/11/2020 8:06:01 AM (No. 407675)
First time I’ve seen “fairy tales” spelled that way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/11/2020 8:16:21 AM (No. 407687)
In other words, pulitzer prize for FICTION
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/11/2020 8:19:09 AM (No. 407693)
What?!
How do these people live with themselves?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/11/2020 8:51:01 AM (No. 407717)
You are free to move to Africa. We'll help you pack.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/11/2020 10:21:57 AM (No. 407803)
So bad history can be good journalism? Got it. Certainly explains everything one needs to know about modern journalism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/11/2020 10:47:15 AM (No. 407829)
As long as they put disclaimers on stuff like this, we can be forewarned that the content is nothing more than fantasies of racist minorities. There are several black directors who made movies the past several years, they freely admit that they took license with the truth, even under the protests of the surviving family members the movies supposedly represent. This trash is nothing more than hatred aimed at the rest of us, all while brainwashing their audience.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PageTurner 5/11/2020 10:58:38 AM (No. 407837)
She means "journalism."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
joew9 5/11/2020 11:24:56 AM (No. 407859)
So now journalism is the same as activism.
Notice how the left is always redefining words to their advantage.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 5/11/2020 11:32:23 AM (No. 407867)
In other words, it's fake.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/11/2020 11:47:50 AM (No. 407893)
Number 1 covers the explanation astutely. Hannah-Jones is obviously using the new definition of "journalism" and not the old one.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/11/2020 12:11:47 PM (No. 407919)
There are two truths to the practice of slavery in America and either one is accurate. One can not be blamed for choosing one over the other.
1. America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries did absolutely nothing wrong because slavery was practiced all over the world and therefore was generally-accepted practice. Tribal chieftains in Africa routinely sold their own people to the slave traders and the slave traders had markets on most continents. It was the only way that agriculture could be sustained on a mass scale. Slaves were treated with cruelty or with kindness, solely at the discretion of the owners.
2. America was founded on a principle of freedom and slavery did not meet the values of freedom so should have been outlawed here from our very beginning. Blacks were redefined as animals to circumvent this technicality.
Either way, WHITE PEOPLE OF TODAY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLAVERY OF THE PAST. Modern Blacks use past slavery as a convenient whip to guilt our government into giving them preference in everything from education, employment, to the ability to cruise through life without doing one day of work. Their bad behavior is excused as an entitlement so they are not to be imprisoned or punished no matter what the crime. I'm sure Nikole included this in her "journalism."
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