“The Wisconsin Journal Sentinel is a Pulitzer prize winning publication. They are not going to print something that they do not have the documentation to prove.”
Janet Cooke, reporter for the Washington Post won a Pulitizer Prize in 1981 for an article published by the paper in 1980. The store turned out to be a complete fabrication.
Jayson Blair was a journalist with the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times. He resigned from the paper in 2003 after it was discovered a number of stories he had written for the paper had be plagiarized.
The Pulitzer Prize is no seal of journalistic integrity or excellence:
Refute if you can, the substance of the article. If it is untrue, there should be ample evidence to support what really happened, right?
The old attack the messenger rather than the message just looks weak.