Froom Savages his coworkers on the dead-tree side of the WaPo conglomeration today. The occasion is the awarding of the Pulizer Prize for National Reporting to Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe. Which Globe? The Boston Globe. Not, um, the Washington Globe, er we mean Post, which might seem logically more in a position to have picked up on the subject of Savage's reporting: Presidential signing statements.

Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting yesterday, "for his revelations that President Bush often used 'signing statements' to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws."

The stories that won Savage his prize are certainly familiar to White House Watch readers -- and yet worth rereading.

And here's a question White House correspondents should be asking themselves today: How did an investigative reporter at a regional newspaper end up winning an award on their beat?

According to Globe Editor Martin Baron, the answer is: "What Charlie does and the reason he won this richly deserved Pulitzer is because he covered what the White House does, not just what it says."

Another thing to keep in mind: For entirely too long, Savage was a one-man band on this important national story.

Froom, alas, will most likely never win a Pulitzer, not that it wouldn't be deserved, because he works for a .com, not a "real newspaper." A fact the "real newspaper" management fell all over themselves to emphasize back last year when the White Whorse was giving them shit for what he was writing: "too biased" they said, when he wrote truth.

And yet of the Washington-based press Froomkin has been the one to give the issue more attention--as in explanations of what "signing statements" are, why they're important, why they're evil, and most likely unconstitutional--than just about all the others put together.

"All the others put together" is a disgusting image now that I think about it. Andrea Greenspan together with David Gregory? Ugh. Brain bleach and eyeball sandpaper, stat.