Washington Post wins 6 Pulitzers

Waylon: Go here, search for "series" and look near the end of the page.

 

Yes, but that was for a story line about a woman actually dying of cancer.

It's almost as good as some of the stuff that Trudeau has done on Doonesbury. I think the running story line in Doonesbury about BD's losing a leg is oneof the best series of commentaries I have read in a long time.

 

Michael: Thank you. I felt like a bad Globe reader because I did not recognize his name.

 

The story that beat it -- the Atkinson piece -- was a pretty damned good one, too.

 

I feel kind of badly that one of the smaller newsrooms -- like say, Richmond -- didn't win for the Virginia Tech stuff.

When something huge like that happens locally, I always hope for the hometown paper to come through.

 

I used to love Funky Winkerbean. Then it became ........ serious.

 

I don't understand the hatred. Can't we be happy for the winners? I mean, can we agree they are deserving on some level?

Had it not been for the Post winning six -- a record, by the way -- it was otherwise distributed across the country, from Milwaukee, to Concord, NH. Reuters and Investors Business Daily won for crying out loud. That seems pretty diverse to me.

Circle jerk? Not really. You seem more elitist than the folks you condemn.

 

Jam, no one is mad at the winners. They did fine work. But as sports people, we're supposed to believe in fair and open competition, and there's decades of history to indicate the Pulitzers are something less than that.

 

This won't be the first time I've disagreed with Mr. Bastard, but I thought the violin story was fantastic.

 

The record is 7, for the NYT in 2002.

 

Michael, read Doug Bates' history of the prize, came out in the early '90s. They generally love giving one to an underdog paper. Do you think all the judges started their careers on metros?

But it stands to reason that the papers with the most resources are going to win a lot of the time. No doubt the people on The Washington Post see themselves as underdogs compared with an NYT newsroom that is considerably larger. Would you rather have it like the APSEs with four -- or will it be five? or six? -- circulation categories?