Winner: Unintentionally Telling Category

Mike Thomas from the Orlando Sentinel: "We like to think good journalism sells. But the Los Angeles Times has won 13 Pulitzer Prizes in the past five years, the best stretch in the newspaper's history. This year, daily circulation is down by about 5 percent."

Actually, Mike, the Los Angeles Times circ is down 6.5% weekdays and 7.9% on Sundays. So much for accuracy in media. (In fairness, Mike might not be stupid or a liar and actually inserted the actual circulation decline figures in his article, but an eager editor thought it just looked too bad for the newspaper industry image. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.) But as for good journalism, who says Pulitzer Prizes mean the articles were good journalism, good writing, or even truthful? They are the awards the media bestows on themselves. Obviously those people who dropped the Los Angeles Times didn't think they were deserved. They voted with their cancellations.