Pulitzers As A Statement?

There's a lot of excitement at places like the New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Washington Post and The New York Times as journalistic winners celebrate the Pulitzer prizes they received today. The folks over at CJR Daily though see a message in what types of stories were deemed winners:

Both the James Risen story and Eric Lichtblau story in the Times on secret, warrantless surveillance of phone calls and email by the National Security Agency, and the Dana Priest story in the Post on the CIA network of so-called black prisons in foreign countries where captives are held without trial or recourse, have been denounced by President Bush himself as all but traitorous disclosures. Thus, we seem to have a sort of face-off at the OK Corral between the Pulitzer Board and the Bush White House itself -- one that, among other things, throws into stark clarity the sharply different values that guide each institution.