Fernando Mexia, the pen.
I thought writing a film, I promise, but it turns out that crossed my path the granting of the Pulitzer Prizes . Prestigious respeteados, cherished ..., an endless string of adjectives to describe this grand prize in the end we give a damn, like Miss America .
I do not intend to remove the known category "statues" of journalism, not going out there, but relevance. The Pulitzer Prize is an American to let U.S. media, a local issue. When I look at internet how it has spread like wildfire the news that the New York Times has won five awards do not stop to ask what?
The Pulitzer is not even the Oscar of journalism, at least in Hollywood such thing as the best foreign film to give it a more integrated 
rnational, not to mention the teams that make blockbusters, full of foreigners.
If one was to review the list of Pulitzer winners this year, the thing is sobering. Go ahead my congratulations to the lucky-they give you a prize is always difficult, but the smoke go down to pen this glory. The Pulitzer has led by example the Detroit Free Press, the East Valley Tribune in Arizona, the St. Petersburg Times, The Post-Star or The San Diego Union-Tribune, among others. I think we read the articles none worthy of the prize (a term, incidentally) and quite possibly we have not followed with any regularity these newspapers. The reason is simple, because we are not interested. I doubt that a Pulitzer also assume more international readers. Even for these means the prize will have a positive result but local.
What the NY Times and Washington Post sounds again, but is that these journals are in competition. That major U.S. newspapers carried the Pulitzer is it news? Grace would that it were otherwise, that won a Moscow newspaper, Filipino or Portuguese, for example.
It is true that the media in this country are regarded internationally as examples to follow, but that prestige is not a thing of the Pulitzer, but an incisive way of working with information that is compounded by the desire to better himself and the U.S. means by that account.
The Pulitzer is a bit like Miss America (or Miss USA, which gives me the same thing), is a competition in which only Americans can participate in a press articles published in the U.S. and the other girls passport bars and stars. The fact is that after these mises compete with the "beautiful" in another country by international titles. Not so with the Pulitzer. By the way, does anyone know the name of the new Miss America?, The contest was in January ... will we care?
Basically the Pulitzer is another example of excessive exposure to international issues are high on the U.S. news agenda and in many cases have no meaning beyond the borders of the world's leading power. The large capacity of the media in this country to be present in almost every event that happens in its territory and his masterful ability to dramatize the facts and make the rescue a cat from a tree in a memorable moment is only matched by its position hegemonic in the distribution of information. Thus, the helpless cat perched on a home in Beverly Hills magnolia grows into the "image of the day" of any foreign news.
That is the machinery of "soft power" as defined by Joseph Nye, of the cultural influence which we are accustomed to live and most of the time we accept as their own without being it, receive it as something important without merit. In this staging, Hollywood has been the great American ambassador, no doubt.
Ah, the new Miss America is the current Miss Indiana, Katie Stam, in case anyone was interested.
