THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR OCTOBER 1990 IS PRESENTED TO “Prime Time Live” ABC News A lobbyist, cigar stuck in his mouth, bare belly slung over the waistband of his plaid...
...George Miller and Tom Downey hop aboard the rented jet skis and tool off into the Caribbean...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 161 1 Connecticut Ave...
...The rest of the time was spent on the links, the tennis courts, the beach-much of it in the company of lobbyists...
...Nominations for stones published or aired in December will close January 15...
...Reps...
...In all, the group attended only one reception and fewer than seven hours of meetings during the trip...
...The winner will be announced in the March issue...
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...Thus did a group of House Ways and Means Committee members, their wives, and select staff members ponder the Caribbean Basin Initiative during five days spent on Barbados at taxpayer expense4ocumented by the video cameras of “Prime Time Live...
...Prime Time Live” went beyond the amusing shots of frolicking congressmen to explain the accounting gimmicks and disclosure loop holes that help hide such junkets, to tally up the costs of the Barbados trip, and to examine the legislation that related to it...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR OCTOBER 1990 IS PRESENTED TO “Prime Time Live” ABC News A lobbyist, cigar stuck in his mouth, bare belly slung over the waistband of his plaid swimming trunks, peels a couple of bills off the wad in his hand and gives them to a young jet ski proprietor...
...With a thoroughness that is rare in television journalism, “Prime Time Live” followed up its devastating home movies in a later show with an account of where some congressmen were planning to spend part of their upcoming recess and more of the taxpayers’ money: New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and Switzerland...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stones) on our political system...
Vol. 23 • January 1991 • No. 1
