[pvg]

I've never heard of Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt, or Mark Mazzetti. I don't suspect them of anything horrible, but neither do they have "reputations" on which I can rely.

Two of these people have multiple Pulitzers between them. Schmidt is on tv practically daily. These are not low quality tips to no-name reporters - that 'fact' you made up to fit your preferred narrative. Or at least, did not bother to fact-check!

[jessaustin]

Thanks for the update; it's really hard to figure out who has won a Pulitzer! Schmidt, in particular, seems to show up in the pictures without his name appearing at the top of the prize announcement. I would have recognized the name "Ronan Farrow". [0] Is it meaningful that the intern is the first author? Might he have written the first line in the story, which as we've established is the only claim of any substance, such as it is?

[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-times-reporting-le...