MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for February 1988 is presented to Fred Barnes The New Republic Rep. John. P. Hiler of Indiana entered Congress in 1981 wanting to change the world....
...Myron Levin APF Reporter In the 1950s, Kent cigarettes boasted "the greatest health protection in cigarette history...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...But like most congressmen, Barnes reports, Hiler was "soon transformed into a drudge, a workaholic with little time for what he calls `macro issues...
...With "micronite" filters, made from asbestos...
...Nominations for any newspaper...
...and an obsession with the parochial interests of his district...
...The winner will be announced in the July/ August issue...
...One study of 36 such workers found 29 dead, more than half of them from asbestos-related diseases...
...It's Thunderbird the man craves, Gallo's low-cost, high-alcohol wine...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...The clerk in the discount liquor store needs no further explanation...
...The makers of these skidrow wines deal in a $500 million misery market, one growing faster than the industry norm...
...The health effects • on the smokers who puffed 13 billion Kents from 1952 to 1957, when the filters were in use, haven't been established...
...Barnes details how tasks like raising campaign funds, answering constituent mail, and lobbying for local interests consume Hiler's schedule...
...magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...The award for stories published or aired in March will be announced in the June issue...
...It's a mind-numbing and often demeaning job...
...Aix M. Freedman The Wall Street Journal "Gimme one bird," mumbles a grizzled Bowery wino...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in April will close May 15...
...But Levin found that an unusually high proportion of the workers who manufactured the filter have suffered from asbestos-related deaths...
...How...
...But Freedman reports that Gallo, Mogen David, and other producers are so reluctant to be associated with these lucrative products they won't put their names on the label...
Vol. 20 • May 1988 • No. 4
