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Dorothy Rabinowitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American conservative journalist and commentator. She was born in New York City, and was educated at Queens College and New York University. She has worked as editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal since June 1990 and has been a member of their editorial board since May 1996.[1] She is a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report.[2]
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Pulitzer Prize
Ms. Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for a series of articles published in 2000 covering aspects of U.S. social and cultural trends.[3] Previously, she had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times, but in 2001 "she was not a finalist [but]... the Pulitzer board, which makes the final decisions, reviewed the jury's original three finalists and decided it wanted 'a broader choice.' The jury offered Ms. Rabinowitz as an alternate selection.".[4] "[A]mong the ten articles cited by the board were five articles challenging questionable allegations of sexual abuse. Four of the cited articles commented on the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the remaining article discussed Rudolph Giuliani's recommending a pardon for Michael Milken."[5]
She had previously been nominated in 1996 for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "For her columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse."[6] She had also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995 "For her writing about television" and in 1998 "For her tough-minded, critical columns on television and its place in politics and culture."[7]
No Crueler Tyrannies 
Cover of No Crueler TyranniesAuthor(s) Dorothy Rabinowitz Original title No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times Publisher Free Press, NY Publication date 2003 ISBN 0743228340 OCLC Number 51275066 LC Classification HV8079.C48 R33 2003 No Crueler Tyrannies
Rabinowitz wrote exposés of the dubious sexual abuse charges filed against the operators of day care centers and other individuals, notably that of a family named Amirault in Malden, Massachusetts[8] and those in Wenatchee, Washington.[9] These exposés earned her a 1996 Pulitzer nomination,[6] formed half of the articles cited for her 2001 Pulitzer win,[5] and was the basis of her book No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times.[10]
Rabinowitz told C-SPAN that her work on these cases began with the Wee Care Nursery School case:
I was working as a television commentator. I was at WWOR-TV in New Jersey, doing three times a week some sort of media criticism. And ... I saw this woman in her 20s ... accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex abuse. Oh, I thought, well, that's very odd. ... I thought, How can one woman, one young, lone woman in an absolutely open place like the child care center of the church in New Jersey that she worked for -- how could she have committed these enormous crimes against 20 children, dressed and undressed them and sent -- you know what it is to dress and undress even one child every day without getting their socks lost? -- 20 children in a perfectly public place, torture them for two years, frighten and terrorize them, and they never went home and told their parents anything? ... This did seem strange.[11]
Her work on this led The Wall Street Journal to hire her.[11]
Political commentary
In 1999, Rabinowitz wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal about Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas woman who alleged that then President Bill Clinton had raped her.[12] Rabinowitz took the woman's story at face value, writing "To encounter this woman, to hear the details of her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was in fact an event that took place." The allegations were originally reported by NBC's Lisa Meyers. False claims that Rabinowitz apologized for this story were later circulated and appeared in Wikipedia. She never apologized rting.[13] She also wrote approvingly of Republican presidential candidate John McCain in both the 2000[14] and 2008 U.S. presidential elections.[15][16]
Bibliography
- No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times, Free Press, 2003. ISBN 0743228340.
- About the Holocaust : what we know and how we know it, Institute of Human Relations Press, American Jewish Committee, 1979. OCLC 5829480.
- New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America, Random House, 1976. ISBN 0394485734.
- The other Jews; portraits in poverty, Institute of Human Relations Press, American Jewish Committee, 1972. OCLC 344030.
- Home life; a story of old age, by Dorothy Rabinowitz & Yedida Nielsen, Macmillan, 1971. OCLC 138427.
References
- ^ "The Wall Street Journal Online - Dorothy Rabinowitz Biography". Opinionjournal.com. http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/bio.html/. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "FOX Network The Journal Editorial Report - FOXNews.com". FOXNews.com<!. http://www.foxnews.com/journal/. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". Pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2001,Commentary. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "The Wall Street Journal Online - Extra". Opinionjournal.com. 2001-04-17. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=90000451. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ a b "Skeptical Commentary Wins Pulitzer Prize - Brief Article". Skeptical Inquirer. 2001. Archived from the original on 2006-06-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20060627211015/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_5_25/ai_77757754.
- ^ a b Joseph Kraft. "The Pulitzer Prizes | Commentary". Pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Commentary. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ Margaret Manning. "The Pulitzer Prizes | Criticism". Pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Criticism. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "Wall Street Journal articles on Amirault cases". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930195452/http://www.opinionjournal.com/search/exec/htsearch.cgi?words=amirault&db=db&where=oj.
- ^ "Wall Street Journal articles on Wenatchee cases". Archived from the original on 2004-12-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20041208201315/www.opinionjournal.com/search/exec/htsearch.cgi?words=Wenatchee&method=and.
- ^ Rabinowitz, Dorothy (2002-10-03). "No Crueler Tyrannies - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB111574698302829434.html?mod=2_1150_1. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ a b "Dorothy Rabinowitz : interview with journalist who broke the Kelly Michaels case". Booknotes.org. Injusticebusters.com. May 4, 2003. Archived from the original on April 30, 2005. http://www.injusticebusters.com/2003/Rabinowitz_interview.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ The Folly of Dorothy Rabinowitz -- and the Pulitzer Board
- ^ Tilting at Rumor Mills
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | New Hampshire Primary:". Pulitzer.org. 2000-02-03. http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6418. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "The Wall Street Journal Online - Media Log". Opinionjournal.com. 2008-01-07. http://opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110011093. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ Rabinowitz, Dorothy (2008-10-09). "News Flash: The Media Back Obama - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122351645893317913.html. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
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