MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for Mary and June 1982 is awarded John Doherty, Reason Doherty, a commercial pilot, documents how the Federal Aviation Administration will waste...
...He details the lobbyists' effort to influence key staffers for the House Ways and Means Committee who have the car ~)f Chairman Dan Rostcnkowski, Those efforts included several "fact-finding trips" to Las Vegas casinos and the t\CAA basketball semi-finals...
...The Washington monthly wishes to recognize the writers and publishers who share our purpose of trying to describe how the political system really works, to determine why it succeeds, and why it fails, and to suggest ways in which it might be improved...
...Nominations from any newspaper or magazine in the country are welcome...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the article or articles...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper or magazine article (or SCIICS of article,) on our political system...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manisfestation...
...Cup goes beyond the familiar story of lobbyist plying their trade with powerful congressmen...
...The less expensive system has two characteristics the FAA finds damning: it would upset the agency's most vociferous constituents, private pilots, and it would operate independent of FAA ground controllers...
...The award for articles published in August will be: announced in the November issue...
...Ted Cup, The Washington POS...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for Mary and June 1982 is awarded John Doherty, Reason Doherty, a commercial pilot, documents how the Federal Aviation Administration will waste several billions of dollars on an air collision avoidance system that may be less effective that a far cheaper model...
...Nominations will close September 15...
Vol. 14 • September 1982 • No. 7
