You know what, DPB? I think the problem is the Pulitzer itself and the creeps who administer it.
Seriously, I would like to pretend I knew all along but I didn't. A sin of omission rather than commission. Most of my life, when I heard "Pulitzer Prize", I assumed the author was an honest, deserving writer. Never looked into it at all. Now that I have, I rank the prize right below the Order of Lenin or whatever awards Goebbels gave out for writing.
Meg33---a error which will be handy to point out in the future.
I know this: the family of Gareth Jones and the Ukrainians are not going away. This will be an issue forever until the New York Times does the right thing.
Arthur Sulzberger is such an idiot. He could have ended this by quietly returning the Pulitzer. But he wanted to make an issue of it for some rather sick reasons (my paper apologizes for not doing enough during the Holocaust, my paper will not admit there was a Holodomor first).
We will see who wins. My bet is on the families of victims of Duranty and the New York Times.