Monthly Jounalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for January 1993 is presented to: The Editors Garbage Downy in the reusable bottle may seem the smartest way to fight the country's mounting garbage...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Some merchandise, the investigation found, came from the Sharaka factory in Bangladesh—a child sweat shop notorious even by the subcontinent's own notorious labor standards—where 25 workers, many of them children, were killed in a fire two years ago...
...In the past 20 years, the number of households has risen twice as fast as population growth (due to delayed marriage, a higher divorce rate, and a larger elderly population...
...What Wal-Mart places on racks beneath "Made in the USA" signs is often imported from a variety of infamous places...
...Shrewd enviromentalists, the editors argue, should worry more about how packaging is made (the energy and resources that go into its production) than where it ends up...
...And a lot of packaging, especially wrapping on meat and chicken, is essential to our collective health...
...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 winner will be announced in the July/August issue...
...Moreover, much packaging—44 percent to be exact—derives from shipping-related materials like pallets and cardboard cartons, whereas only 15 percent is from consumer products...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in April will close May 15...
...April 1993/The Washington Monthly 19...
...Dateline sums up Wal-Mart's big lie with this startling statistic: Last year the company imported 288 million pounds of merchandise from Hong Kong and China, 8,000 times what it was importing before it began boasting about buying American...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Another favorite Wal-Mart factory in China is the launching point for a huge smuggling operation where garments are produced on the cheap and then affixed with "Made in Malaysia" labels to avoid quotas on Chinese goods...
...20009...
...for December 1992 is presented to: Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Dateline NBC Wal-Mart has made a fuss—and a fortune—claiming that whenever possible, the goods it sells are "Made in the USA...
...Corporate "image enhancers" like returnable glass bottles and legislative efforts that target disposal, as opposed to manufacture, may salve the public's conscience, but won't make the world much greener...
...But according to this Dateline report, much that the world's largest retailer sells is about as American as shrimp lo mein...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for January 1993 is presented to: The Editors Garbage Downy in the reusable bottle may seem the smartest way to fight the country's mounting garbage problem, but the editors of this bi-monthly "practical journal for the environment" have news for you: The increase in consumer waste has more to do with demographics than shrink-wrap...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
Vol. 25 • April 1993 • No. 4
