Shine On, You Crazy Tabloid

The only criterion for winning a Pulitzer is whether the nominee represents a “distinguished” example of journalism in its field (international, investigative, etc.) in a “newspaper” (the initial disqualifier for the NE). But “distinguished” is pretty subjective, and has in the past allowed for both coverage of sex scandals and “checkbook journalism” to win Pulitzers, so I don’t see the Enquirer is somehow disqualified from winning. To argue otherwise, I feel, is merely snobbery.