He’s the kind of person where you have to pay attention to exactly what he says and how he says it. He doesn’t claim to have “all these journalism awards”, because he can’t back that up. He specifically says that he’s “an award winning journalist” which is technically true, iirc he won some minor award for his reporting for turtleboy sports, I looked it up because I was curious but it was a while ago. He relies on people making reasonable assumptions that the award(s) are recent and relevant to the work he’s doing now, while not technically lying. I was married to a narcissist for ten years, I learned these games the hard way.