Hell Yes

The Enquirer should definitely be allowed to win the Pulitzer Prize.     If Hitler is, indeed, still alive, and living in Argentina, and their reporting proves it, why shouldn’t they be honored?

Or was it for the one about Elvis meeting with Martians?  Or Bat Boy getting married?  Maybe I’m thinking about Weekly World News…which gets me to my point:  the truth is, all media is sort of blurring into one big cosmic indecipherable orb and the typical reader doesn’t know or care if he read about John Edwards in the New York Times or Newsweek or The National Enquirer.  If the reporting The Enquirer did on this particular story is worthy and deemed so by the Pulitzer Prize committee, why the hell not.

I remember back when we were working on our O.J. Simpson trial coverage here at Newsweek, and there was always one publication that was often ahead of us and the rest of the national media.   And that was the National Enquirer.  We’d joke about that around the office, but you can bet we were going downstairs every week to the newsstand to pick up the latest copy.  “Ha, ha, ha,” we’d say, “look at all of this “exclusive” stuff The Enquirer has,” and then the laughter would trail off nervously.  Then miraculously a couple of weeks later the same stuff would be out in the so-called mainstream media where it would suddenly have legitimacy.  Well, legitimacy as it was measured then, anyway.  It’s different now.  Give them the prize.