No, there is no Pulitzer PRize for PR. Can't imagine why, can you?
There is a Pullet SurPRise for Public Relations.
That's where they award the winner $1.00, in pennies, and a raw, dead, featherless chicken for traditional PR writing that goes above and beyond in the fight against transparency, conversation, community-building and/or thought leadership. I've won a couple of times... years ago. I'd show you a picture of my trophies, but, alas, they don't last long. Realizing the first few times that the darn things fast forward to stink in a hurry, I took up eating them... cooked, of course. Hey, I'm in PR but I'm not a complete moron.
But there ought to be some award for this column by a writer unnamed and which appeared in this online version of a local publication called New Times in San Luis Obispo County, California. It not only makes some funny observations about Pulitzer fantasies, but it has some insightful things to say about PR people and politicians (two groups that kind of share second to last place in The People's Choice award for "The type of person with whom I would least enjoy a dinner date unless all conversation is banned." Who is in last place? People who seriously think they really should have won a Pulitzer and didn't and never will. Bet ya didn't know that.
A snippet in case you're so busy following Pulitzer news you can't take time to click the link yourself:
Did you see who won the award for criticism? Some yahoo named Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly took the top honor and pocketed $10,000 for "his zestful, wide-ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater."
Erudite? Is that even a word? And what sort of criticism is food writing? Any chuckle-head with a menu and a thesaurus could slap some words on a page and call it criticism. Here: "I ate at a restaurant the other night, and the food was terrible. No, it was awful, horrible, severe, dreadful, very bad, appalling, and poor."
Where's my award? Where's my check? Oh, right. I wasn't erudite enough for you. Figures. It's all political anyway.
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