{"id":11320,"date":"2018-12-27T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:49:26","slug":"the-perils-of-prizes-and-self-congratulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/12\/the-perils-of-prizes-and-self-congratulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of prizes and self-congratulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/whither-news\/the-spiegel-scandal-and-the-seduction-of-storytelling-bfed804d7b21\">medium.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Relotius has already returned his four awards from the German Reporter Forum and some are questioning the value of such awards. That is another <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/buzzmachine.com\/2006\/11\/28\/2247\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/buzzmachine.com\/2006\/11\/28\/2247\/\">long-held heresy<\/a> of mine: that our Pulitzers are bad for American journalism as they motivate us to impress each other, more than to serve the public. Of course, that\u2019s not always the case, just too often it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>medium.com Relotius has already returned his four awards from the German Reporter Forum and some are questioning the value of such awards. That is another long-held heresy of mine: that our Pulitzers are bad for American journalism as they motivate us to impress each other, more than to serve the public. Of course, that\u2019s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/12\/the-perils-of-prizes-and-self-congratulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The perils of prizes and self-congratulation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11321,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}