So the Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes. The New York Times took home two. Even Reuters picked one up. But perhaps it's a little unfair to award journalism's most prestigious awards only to the media organizations who can actually afford to be in the game? Whiny argument below!

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Newspapers won awards. WaPo won more than NYT. Heck, even Bob Dylan picked one up. [E&P]

It's been over a week since the results of the Pulitzers were first announced, which is, apparently, just long enough for everyone to suddenly remember the horrendous backlash that award-winner (and Daily News reporter) Juan Gonzalez encountered pre-Pulitzer, when his 9/11 health piece initially ran.

In fact, at the time, Gonzalez was essentially torn a new one by New York's power players, including Mayor Rudy Giuliani, EPA director Christie Whitman, and—as it turns out—the top editors at the NYDN! Fortunately for everyone, Gonzalez (who shunned the Pulitzer victory celebration) is a very humble man.

Reached at home, where he is on book leave, Gonzalez is clearly magnanimous, congratulating his colleagues and adding: "My only concern is that, if more journalists, not just at the News but in the rest of the New York media, had had the courage to follow the story back then, maybe there wouldn't be as many people getting sick or dying now."

Which is pretty much Gonzalez's tactful way of saying, "Eat me, Mort Zuckerman."

• Star Jones is looking for a new assistant! Interested applicants must be able to prioritize, multi-task and listen to her bark "I'm a lawyer!" ten times a day without snickering. Ever.

• In the midst of the Daily News and Wall Street Journals' post-Pulitzer celebrations, Jack Shafer reminds us that the awards are essentially a worthless crock of shit.

• Katie Couric owes Don Imus a bouquet of flowers for momentarily distracting everyone from that whole icky plagiarism thing.

• Paris Hilton's so nervous about a possible stint in the clink that she bought herself a brand new pair of artificial boobs. Allegedly.

• People are practically lining up around the block to throw feces at Richard Gere. And here he thought he's alienated everyone with Shall We Dance.

• Network execs opt to show Dancing With The Stars, Deal or No Deal and Two and a Half Men rather than risk alienating advertisers by covering the "deadliest school shooting incident in U.S. history."

• Wall Street Journal wins two Pulitzer Prizes, giving them a 2-0 edge over Hustler magazine.

• MTV greenlights several more "user-generated" reality shows, adheres to its strategy of not playing any music videos whatsoever.

• That slacker Regis Philbin still isn't done recovering from his triple heart bypass surgery.

• Does the press pick presidents? "Yes!" hopes journalist/Ross Perot supporter, Jack Shafer.

• Conrad Black is as underwhelmed by the prosecutors on his case as his wife, Lady Black, is by 'those sluts who call themselves reporters.'

The Pulitzer Prizes are being handed out probably as we speak. We're hearing the Wall Street Journal picked up the award for public service. More to come.

Update: The full list of winners is coming through ..WSJ: 2. LAT: 1. NYT: 1. Newsday: 1. NYDN: 1. AP: 1. LA Weekly: 1. Boston Globe: 1. Miami Herald: 1. Other papers unrecognizable outside the city: a few others.

• Conrad Black celebrates the start of his fraud trial by holing up at the Ritz Carlton.

• Two LA Times Pulitzer finalists nominated themselves. When questioned about it, they haughtily remarked, "well somebody had to do it!"

• With the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit heating up, Google suddenly needs to hook up with one of the "popular" media kids.

• Not just anyone can emulate The Economist's overly expensive and "aggressively boring" style!

• Will the publisher of Cookie join the leagues of Conde Nasters jumping to Reader's Digest? Who cares, you only read Teen Vogue, anyway.

• Stuff for sale! No, seriously, Stuff. As well as Maxim, Blender…

• Here's the unofficial list of Pulitzer contenders. Sadly, In Touch magazine just missed the mark (again) this year.

• Barry Diller and Dow Jones are making their very own personal finance site aimed at "younger audiences." Our dad can't wait for it to launch!

• CSM just doesn't like the idea of an encyclopedia written for the people, by the people.

• Bob Woodruff, very understandably, has no interest whatsoever in returning to Iraq; Brian Williams respectfully disagrees.

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• Jane magazine is sorry for inadvertently IDing the 53 women who agreed to "anonymously" show their tits.

• CBS poaches Google ad exec after promising him a correctly spelled business card and an intro to Katie Couric.

• Bigger isn't always better; Washington Posties told to keep their articles short…or else they'll find themselves at (gasp!) The Washington Times.

• The Pulitzers are coming! The Pulitzers are coming! Predictions for who won't win: The New York Daily News, for their dramatic coverage of the completely fabricated 9/11 "hero."

• It's nice that ABC's Bob Woodruff has helped raise awareness for injured army vets. Too bad the Pentagon has just banned CNN and the Discovery Channel from filming at Walter Reed Medical Center.

• And in sad news, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger has died, at the senseless age of 89.

• Lane Garrison gets killed off on Prison Break, takes it out on a civilian.

• If you're going to say nasty things about former Fox Interactive chief Ross Levinsohn, he'd appreciate it if you at least used a better photo.

• Stephen Colbert takes home I Want Media's Man of the Year award, for all the reasons you'd expect.

• Even without Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, apparently a show can go on.

• Pulitzer Prize-winning photog finally indentified.

• Katie Couric is doing some stuff right. Meanwhile, so are Nightline and This Week With George Stephanopoulos.

• The holidays are for lawsuits.

• A user's guide for Art Basel Miami Beach, which you're interested in for the artworks, of course.

We're not saying Howard Kurtz wrote his own headline here, but we can't help but notice it left out any mention of the New York Times snagging three Pulitzers.

Post Wins 4 Pulitzer Prizes; 2 Go to New Orleans Paper [Howard Kurtz, WaPo]

• Exactly 11 people, and four blogs, await the announcement of the Village Voice's new editor. [NYT]

• It was probably Robin Givhan's appearance on the Colbert Report that locked up the Pulitzer for her. [WWD]

• One day soon, Superman will wash his tights in Tide. [WSJ]

• How a Chronicle of Higher Education article about university profs delivering soundbites for the media gets printed without a Robert Thompson mention baffles us. [TCOHE]

• Blogs and Internet pundits, like TV pundits just a few years ago, wield a "disproportionately large influence" on society, says new research. Also, according to new research, "Blah, blah, blah." [Guardian]

• Judging by its' latest cover, it seems The New Republic desperately needs a lesson in subtlety. [Media Mob]

In the interest of of service journalism, we bring you the full list of Pulitzer Prize winners, announced just moments ago. Our initial analysis: WaPo beat NYT, 4-to-3; the local New Orleans papers (Biloxi's Sun Herald and New Orleans' Times-Picayune) picked up Public Service awards the way Jon Ritter picks up posthumous Emmy noms; there doesn't seem to be a Drama award winner (or is our information wrong?); NYTimes.com will soon feature a new Nick Kristof ad for TimesSelect flaunting his win.

Public Service
The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La.
(Hurricane Katrina coverage)

Breaking News Reporting
Staff of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La.
(Hurricane Katrina coverage)

Investigative Reporting
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post
(Jack Abramoff reporting)

Explanatory Reporting
David Finkel of The Washington Post
(U.S. government's attempt to bring democracy to Yemen)

Beat Reporting
Dana Priest of The Washington Post
(Controversial antiterrorism efforts by the U.S. goverment)

National Reporting
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times
(Secret domestic eavesdropping)
Staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service
(Former Rep. Randy Cunningham's bribe taking)

International Reporting
Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of The New York Times
(China's legal system)

Feature Writing
Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
(Stories on a Marine who helped families cope with family members killed in Iraq)

Commentary
Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times
(Darfur genocide)

Criticism
Robin Givhan of The Washington Post
(Fashion criticism)

Editorial Writing
Rick Attig and Doug Bates of The Oregonian, Portland
(Abuse inside an Oregon mental hospital)

Editorial Cartooning
Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Breaking News Photography
Staff of The Dallas Morning News
(Hurricane Katrina)

Feature Photography
Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
(Funerals of Colorado Marines killed in Iraq)

The other Pulitzers (you know, the non-journalism ones), after the jump.

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Know what bothers us a bit? That today's Times features Kit Seelye mulling over the city's tabloids letting advertisers buy their front and back covers, violating one of the grand unwritten rules of newspaper advertising: don't put advertisers on the covers. Sure, we're as upset as the next media ethics prof over the move from wrapping newspapers with ads to actually making the advertiser the frontpage, but, well, that's not really today's news.

At 3 o'clock this afternoon, Columbia University will be announcing the 2006 Pulizter Prizes. You know, those silly awards that people in our little bubble measure their worth, status, and social ladder rung. And sure, while we expect tomorrow's paper to tout the number of Pulitzters Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s kiddos snap up, wouldn't today be the perfect time for, say, a Pulitzer retrospective?

Naturally we would've poked fun at it, but a glaring news hole? It's much easier for us to shove our Bill O'Reilly-sized ego cocks in it. We can only forgive Salon.com for not feeding us our regimen of Pulitzer hype, since they're out of the running by definition — and why cover something you're not part of?

Advertising Out Front, Followed by the News [Katharine Seelye, NYT]
Pulitzer [Official Site]
Related: Blogs, and Salon, still not taken seriously