[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 60 (Saturday, April 12, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E780]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             TRIBUTE TO PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOSTON GLOBE

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                         HON. MARTIN T. MEEHAN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 11, 2003

  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Boston 
Globe on their Pulitzer Prize for public service, journalism's highest 
honor, for their coverage of the clergy abuse scandal in Boston. They 
are to be commended for their outstanding and comprehensive reporting.
  In January of last year the Globe ran a Spotlight series, which 
showed a widespread pattern of sexual abuse by priests, covered up by 
the Archdiocese of Boston. Throughout the year, a team of reporters, 
including Spotlight reporters Walter V. Robinson, Matthew Carroll, 
Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes; investigative reporters Kevin 
Cullen, Thomas Farragher, and Stephen Kurkjian; and religion reporter 
Michael Paulson, managed by editors Ben Bradlee Jr. and Mark S. Morrow, 
produced nearly 800 stories related to the scandal.
  The Globe executed courageous and timely reporting and coverage of 
the scandal. They reached a level of reporting and coverage 
unparalleled in recent times in its depth and force of reporting. As a 
result of their coverage, the scandal received international attention, 
and culminated with the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law in 
December.
  At a time when we need public servants, and we call on our citizens 
to offer their services to our communities and to our country, the 
Globe proved that newspapers too can rise to the challenge and provide 
an incredible public service. There is no doubt that the thousands of 
families, who found a voice through the pages of the newspaper's 
coverage of this scandal, are far better off for the Globe's work. We 
all owe them our thanks and a debt of gratitude for their service.

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