NYT, WaPo win Pulitzer for deep state puppetry The Pulitzer committee awarded its prize for national reporting to the New York Times and Washington Post for driving a Trump-Russia narrative that has proven to be largely unfounded. For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration. This reporting is fairly described by the superior journalists at The Conservative Treehouse as "a well constructed and brutally familiar pattern of what journalism looks like when the IC use reporters to cover their tracks and create a justification based on a false premise."  For one example of that superior journalism, The Conservative Treehouse found that Carter Page had been an undercover FBI operative before the FBI claimed that he was a foreign agent as grounds to spy on the Trump campaign. That is some journalism that deserves an award, but it is doubtful that anyone in the corporate media would would give recognition to a blog called the Conservative Treehouse. This year's Pulitzer can go along with the Pulitzer that Walter Duranty got for acting as Stalin's mouthpiece and denying the Holodomor famine.