STEUBENVILLE - News 9 has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize once again for 'Lamest News Coverage'. The announcement came at about 4:00 ET for their coverage of a coyote running around in Steubenville (right). Residents commented that they weren't all that surprised to see a fairly common animal in a town like Steubenville."It really wasn't doing anything," said some guy we talked to. "It just sat there letting this dog bark at it. I hoped to see more action."
According to those in charge of handing out the Pulitzer, News 9 wasted valuable resources in order to cover the story. They also obstructed officials from the Ohio Division of Wildlife when they told them not to remove the animal until they got there "so they could watch." Reporter Aly Cohen told OVN that she feels like her skills would be better utilized elsewhere.
"I work too hard to waste my time covering the things WTOV considers newsworthy," said Cohen. "Last week they told me to sit down by the river and wait for this guy to catch a fish so I could interview him about it."
The Pulitzer Prize people say that the story reminded them of last year's winner, a Japanese news station's coverage of a giant lizard running amok in Tokyo. Columbia University professors (the people who do the Pulitzer thing we've been talking about) say that story won last year because they couldn't understand what the Japanese news anchors were trying to say, and that salamanders being spotted in cities is a pretty common thing."We're having a yard sale over on North Fourth street," said a woman in Steubenville when we asked her about the announcement.
