Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
Gene WeingartenI believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
Gene WeingartenPeggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.
Gene Weingarten