· After nearly a dozen years of party-crashing for the NYO, Frank DiGiacomo falls for the allure of Graydon Carter's hypomania and big expense accounts. (As The Kicker put it, "Observer Staffers Dissatisfied: Little Gold Foil Stars No Longer Considered Adequate Compensation Package.") [Keith Kelly (last item)]
· No Pulitzer for feature-writing was awarded because none of the entries received a majority of votes. (None of the 17 voting board members would go so far as to say that the three nominated pieces sucked.) [Liz Halloran]
· The Pulitzers are over-rated and over-played, everyone should be wracked with shame for this grotesque display of self-congratulation and navel-gazing, blah blah blah. [Jack Shafer]