This is really simple folks.

They lost their cred.

How?

They deceived their customers. Oh, the NYT Journalists that walked away with awards truly believed their written pap. They had been deceived long ago.

It doesn’t matter how much lipstick you put on a pig!

Academy Awards
CMA’s
Tony’s
Emmy’s
Nobel Prizes
Pulitzers

These groups develop, over time, their own unique little islands of consensus: After which, if you don’t fit the template, you just don’t belong.

I wish they would just stop fawning all over themselves.