Kieran Healy

Pulitzers

Jacob Levy points out that the NYT only one a single Pulitzer price this year. But he also sensibly notes that this isn’t such a big deal: there were no NYT winners in 2000, for example.

Empirical Task: Visit bloggers who (unlike Jacob) suffer from acute Timesophobia and see whether any of them suggest the dearth of Pulitzers is a judgment on the malign influence of Howell Raines.

Thought Experiment: Assume the Times had won many Pulitzers, and ask whether Timesophobes would view this as a further indictment of a corrupt, backscratching liberal media establishment.

That is the great thing about Sullivan’s schtick. Anything is evidence of the ‘problem.’ There is no possible falsification that he can’t make fit the conspiracy.

Per Archpundit’s comment, this also is reminiscent of the Bush Administration, don’t you think?