There is currently a story on the wreck list that is basically bullshite. Edward Snowden on Short List For Nobel Peace Prize. (A late addition of the word, “probably” in the title without amending the story is also deceiving.)
Don’t worry about actual facts and how the Nobel Foundation actually works. Just believe something posted on the internet with a source from somebody who is not on the Nobel Foundation selection Committee.
Here’s the source in the diary:
"2016 may finally be Edward Snowden's year ... His leaks are now having a positive effect," Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, told Reuters, putting him top of his list of candidates.
The Peace Research Institute (Oslo) is not the Nobel Foundation. And Snowden may be on the top of Mr. Harpviken’s list but that’s pretty much like saying he’s on the top of Glenn Greenwald’s list.
As most people know here — anyone can nominate a person, persons, groups, countries for Nobel prizes. The first weeding out involves those nominations from the “who the fuck are you” folks. Like, take me, for instance. I’ve nominated myself for the prize in literature since the first Nobels were awarded They were on to my scheme.
Then, there is a winnowing down to what is known as the short list and that happens, I think, by February 1 of the year of the award.
Never has the Nobel Foundation released the names of the nominees or those who nominated them prior to a 50 year cone of silence period. They even have that tidbit in their statutes:
“The statutes of the Nobel Foundation restrict disclosure of information about the nominations, whether publicly or privately, for 50 years. The restriction concerns the nominees and nominators, as well as investigations and opinions related to the award of a prize.
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The Committee does not itself announce the names of nominees, neither to the media nor to the candidates themselves. In so far as certain names crop up in the advance speculations as to who will be awarded any given year's Prize, this is either sheer guesswork or information put out by the person or persons behind the nomination. Information in the Nobel Committee's nomination database is not made public until after fifty years.”
I posted this as a comment in the current diary on the wreck list but never you mind, it was ignored except by one person. Believe what you want to but it is yet another embarrassing assertion here at DKos.
But carry on with whatever this imaginary short-list revelation seems to be.