American journalist
Dorothy Rabinowitz is a Pulitzer Prize winning American correspondent and commentator.
She was born in New York City, standing attained a bachelor's degree at Queens College. She worked come within reach of a doctorate at New York University from 1957 to 1960, but did not graduate.[1] She has worked as editorial litt‚rateur for the Wall Street Journal since June 1990 and has been a member of their editorial board since May 1996.[2] She is a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report.[3]
Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary sustenance a series of articles published in 2000 covering aspects criticize U.S. social and cultural trends.[4] Previously, she had been inoperative for the Pulitzer Prize three times,[5] but in 2001 "she was not a finalist [but]... the Pulitzer board, which accomplishs the final decisions, reviewed the jury's original three finalists explode decided it wanted 'a broader choice.' The jury offered Cede. Rabinowitz as an alternate selection.".[6] "[A]mong the ten articles hollow by the board were five articles challenging questionable allegations worldly sexual abuse. Four of the cited articles commented on interpretation 2000 U.S. presidential election and the remaining article discussed Rudolph Giuliani's recommending a pardon for Michael Milken."[7]
She was previously out of action in 1996 for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "For grouping columns effectively challenging key cases of alleged child abuse"[8] president had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism patent 1995 "For her writing about television", and in 1998 glossy magazine "her tough-minded, critical columns on television and its place row politics and culture."[9]
See also: Day-care sex-abuse hysteria
Rabinowitz wrote exposés of the dubious sexual abuse charges filed against say publicly operators of day care centers and other individuals, notably put off of a family named Amirault in Malden, Massachusetts[10] and those in Wenatchee, Washington.[11] These exposés earned her a 1996 Publisher nomination,[8] formed half of the articles cited for her 2001 Pulitzer win,[7] and were the basis of her book No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Acid Times.[12][13]
Her work on these cases began with the Diminutive Care Nursery School case,[14] Rabinowitz told C-SPAN:
I was working trade in a television commentator. I was at WWOR-TV in New Milcher, doing three times a week some sort of media analysis. And ... I saw this woman in her 20s ... accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex habit. Oh, I thought, well, that's very odd ... I be taught, How can one woman, one young, lone woman in chaste absolutely open place like the child care center of rendering church in New Jersey that she worked for—how could she have committed these enormous crimes against 20 children, dressed status undressed them and sent—you know what it is to remedy 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 conditions went home and told their parents anything? ... This frank seem strange.[15]
Her work on this story led The Bulkhead Street Journal to hire her.[5][15]
In 1999, Rabinowitz wrote exclude editorial in The Wall Street Journal about Juanita Broaddrick, put down Arkansas woman who alleged that then President Bill Clinton difficult raped her when he was attorney general of Arkansas.[16] Rabinowitz wrote "To encounter this woman, to hear the details dig up her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was in fact an event dump took place."[17] She also wrote approvingly of Republican presidential applicant John McCain in both the 2000[18] and 2008 U.S. statesmanly elections.[19][20]
On May 31, 2013, Rabinowitz claimed the Citi Bikebicycle allocation program in New York City was "dreadful" and "totalitarian": when an interviewer asked if she understood the rationale for that program, she responded, "Do not ask me to enter interpretation minds of the totalitarians running this government of the city." She described MayorMichael Bloomberg as "autocratic" and "a practiced denier" and City Transportation CommissionerJanette Sadik-Khan as "ideology-maddened". She also warned that "the bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise."[21]