THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for May 1988 is presented to Chicago Tribune Chicago public schools administrator Manford Byrd Jr. earns $110,000 a year and calls himself probably the...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text accompany the nomination...
...The caucuses involves a Byzantine system of minimum thresholds...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to thebest newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (of series of stories( on our political system...
...Classrooms went without Miles and supplies while the school load bull.' a private bathroom for .a field superintendent...
...But the NES sent high school kids with no training to count heads in crowded rooms...
...But his,school system has some, of the, nations lowest test scores and Byrd says he has no idea...
...them employed (he National Election Service to monitor this...
...Astonishingly no one knows...
...To shortcut this impure exercise in democracy, the networks attempted to, learn who got the most votes on the first ballot- a truer indication of a candidate's popularity as the campaign conducts its tint real vote...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in die country are welcome The subject can be government, state, or municipal The award tier stories published or hired in July will be announced in the October issue, Nominations for liar stories published or aired in August will close September 15...
...The winners will be announced in the November issue...
...Gephardt then leapt 10 points in the New Hampshire polls, passing Simon for good Network officials, who cling to their numbers like Vietnam generals to body counts, still discount the possibility of error...
...The Tribune's - series captures both the drama Of inner-city schools, which serve as holding pens for the #S s poor, and the bureaucratic forces responsible...
...for June 1988 is presented to William saletan American Politics Who got the mOst votes in the Iowa caucuses...
...He should check the Trubune's two -week, series for some answers a bleated, leaderless bureaucracy, a selfish teachers union, and an indifferent legislature...
...earns $110,000 a year and calls himself probably the most gifted urban administrator in this country...
...multiple ballots, and Weighted districts...
...real'" vote in each of the state's2,500 precints...
...Saletan reports that some didn't even show tip and others "treaked Out and left " The networks reported their Unreliable tills and declared Vichttrd G ephardt the sinner, though Paul Stmon may infact have out polled him...
Vol. 20 • September 1988 • No. 8
