Best Pulitzer Since Seymour Hersch on My Lai, Or Why We Need Real Newspapers And Fearless WhistleBlowers

I admit: As late as yesterday, I would have bet large sums of money that this would never, ever happen. I do not have the words to describe how happy I am to have been so very, very wrong.

Charles Pierce:

Hello? What's this?

Awarded to The Washington Post for its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security...Awarded to The Guardian US for its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy.

Precisely correct. It never has been about the who. It always has been about the what, and the how, and especially the why, which latter never has been adequately explained by the all-too-human, but curiously error-prone people who thought they'd never have to explain anything to anybody.