{"id":123243,"date":"2014-04-15T05:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=123243"},"modified":"2014-04-17T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:08:07","slug":"on-pulitzer-prize-committee-decision-to-reward-guardian-and-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/on-pulitzer-prize-committee-decision-to-reward-guardian-and-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"On Pulitzer Decision To Reward Guardian And Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Edward+Snowden&amp;x=5&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edward Snowden<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year&#8217;s reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90948\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90948\" class=\" wp-image-90948 \" alt=\"Edward Snowden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden-300x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Edward-Snowden.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Snowden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance.<\/p>\n<p>This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. My efforts would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers, and they have my gratitude and respect for their extraordinary service to our society. Their work has given us a better future and a more accountable democracy.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Statement issued by Edward Snowden today<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":90948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On Pulitzer Decision To Reward Guardian And Washington Post  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/on-pulitzer-prize-committee-decision-to-reward-guardian-and-washington-post\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Pulitzer Decision To Reward Guardian And Washington Post  - 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