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St. Petersburg, Fla.: Do you think, as a newspaper, that winning these four major categories cements The Post's position as the best paper in the land?
Susan Schmidt: There was some fantastic reporting by newspapers all over the country last year, including some very deserving papers that didn't win yesterday. The Toledo Blade, for example, was a finalist for the Public Service award for its Coingate reporting and could easily have won. But, for today anyway, I guess we feel like we are working for the best newspaper in the country.

Washington, D.C.: Congratulations on your Pulitzers. They are well-deserved. I cannot in good faith extend the same congratulations to Robin Givhan. I could not believe that she was honored with a Pulitzer. Her "work" is so destructive and mean-spirited. She didn't even spare the children of John Roberts. Why on earth did the Pulitzer Prize committee consider such a vindictive person to be worthy of such an esteemed award?
R. Jeffrey Smith: Robin's work is creative, witty, and opinionated. Isn't that the definition of a good columnist/commentator? There is no expectation here that what she writes will generate universal agreement, nor should there be.