In the category of “Newspaper Ignoring Everything about a Candidate for Years, But Getting Lucky When Said Candidate Gets Caught in a Sex Scandal,” the Pulitzer goes to the New York Times (plus four others):

The New York Times’ five awards give it 101 since the Pulitzers were first awarded in 1917, by far the most of any news organization. Only twice has an organization won more than five in a year: in 2002, when The Times won seven, and last year, when The Washington Post won six. […]
The Times won the prize for breaking news reporting, for its coverage of the swift disintegration of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career, less than a year and a half after he was elected governor of New York in a landslide.
The Times’s coverage of the war and political struggle in Afghanistan and Pakistan won the prize for international reporting. And a detailed examination by David Barstow of conflicts of interest among the military analysts who help television networks cover the wars in Asia won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting.
Holland Cotter of The Times won the prize for criticism, for his coverage of art. And Damon Winter won for feature photography, for his work from the 2008 campaign.

Fred Dicker of the New York Post, who was actually writing the stories on Spitzer’s abuse of power that would have gotten the governor in the most trouble, was shut out. Anyone believe for a second that if it were the New York Post that broke the hooker story that they would have received the prize? Under this Pulitzer standard, the National Enquirer should have at least been considered for its coverage of the “swift disintegration” of John Edwards’s political career.