[PurpleMan]

The Pulitzers should be renamed "The Jason Blairs" or "The Janet Cookes"

[Doogle]

“The Jason Blairs”.,..from now on....

[Travis McGee]

Why the surprise? The NYT still hangs the Pulitzer on its wall that it “won” for covering up Stalin’s starvation mass-murder of the Ukrainians.

They have never changed.

[BallyBill]

Why outrage? These awards are all political now. They give them out to people who write about the fantasies they wish were actually true.

[BilLies]

Why not just call it the “PUTZ PRIZE”?

[truemiester]

We need to deemphasize the Nobel prize and the Pulitzer prize as they are both so political and do not represent genius or impartiality, if they ever did.

[markomalley]

A prize by libtards, of libtards, and for libtards,

Yawn...

[freekitty]

Yep. They deal in falsehoods; so why is anyone surprised?

[Clioman]

Be patient. NYT Co. is headed toward penny stock status, and this time next year you’ll probably be able to find Putz Sulzberger’s pulitzers on a yard sale table somewhere on Long Island.

[ontap]

Nothing but a bunch of liberals patting themselves on the back. Who cares!!!!

[Common Sense 101]

It’s the primary target or political objective that is of greatest importance, not the accuracy or truthfulness of the story.

[andy58-in-nh]

The Pulitzer Prize has been devalued by politics to a point where it is today the journalistic equivalent of a Grammy Award.

[MamaTexan]

for a story discredited by an independent investigation

When are all these upper-crusters going to realize these ‘prestigious awards’ are really nothing more than popularity contests at the intellectual masterbater's club?

[Onelifetogive]

The Pulitzers should be renamed "The Jason Blairs" or "The Janet Cookes"

I think I'd much rather win a "Buckley"...

[happygrl]

They added: "It hardly requires genius to understand that Mr. Barstow's intent was to damage the credibility and reputation of the Bush Administration, our Military and that his publicly discredited attempts to undercut our Nation's bravest accomplishes little more than turning the Prize, his newspaper and his reputation into a laughing stock."

Larry Di Rita, a former Rumsfeld aide who helped set up the program, told Inside the Ring, "It seems to violate the Pulitzer committee's time-honored tradition of awarding the prize before the story is later debunked. This time they at least waited for the debunking to happen first. I look at it as just another laughable reminder that the establishment media are awarding themselves ever more grandiose awards in direct proportion to their increasing irrelevance and desperation."

Every award [Pulitzer, Nobel Peace Prize, Oscar] has become Orwellian. None of these prizes are worth a bucket of spit now.

[kcvl]

http://www.nytco.com/images/awards_barstow-bergman.jpg

went to New York Times reporter David Barstow for his story, “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand”

“Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.”