THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for February, 1984 is presented to William E. Geist The New York Times When Kyung-Sung Choi, a Korean immigrant, decided to open a grocery store on New...
...Every state except Alaska and Hawaii wound up with a piece of the action, and Rockwell got its contract...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the article or articles...
...Nominations will close May 35...
...Frank Greve Knight-Ridder Greve's report on the B-1 bomber detailed Rockwell International's ingenious lobbying strategy...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Yes, Swiss or Belgian chocolates...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for February, 1984 is presented to William E. Geist The New York Times When Kyung-Sung Choi, a Korean immigrant, decided to open a grocery store on New York's Park Avenue, the wrath of upper class residents of the neighborhood descended upon him...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper or magazine article (or series of articles) on our political system...
...Nominations from any newspaper or magazine in the country are welcome...
...or chocolates...
...The article is a model for how newspaper writers can write about class conflict in America without lapsing into dry, sociological discourse...
...The award for articles published in April will be announced in the July/August issue...
...Though he writes in a wry tone, Geist is merciless in exposing the snobbery of Park Avenue society ("We do not want a food store of any kind," says one women:" flowers might be all right...
...The key was not Washington lobbyists, but voters: by farming out enough work to subcontractors across the country, Rockwell was able to ensure that nearly every senator and congressman had his own B-1 constituency...
Vol. 16 • May 1984 • No. 4
