File this under the If You Care category: the Pulitzer folks
have awarded the journalists who most
undermined national security of the last year: James Risen and Eric
Lichtblau of the New York Times for the
terrorist surveillance story, and Dana Priest of the Washington Post for the secret prisons
story.
Well deserved: public service awards to the New Orleans
Times-Picayune and Gulfport Sun Herald for their Hurricane Katrina coverage. Heck,
the Times-Picayune staff evacuated its
offices for weeks and still put out an impressive web product.