Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for October 1993 is presented to Dean Baquet with Diana B. HenriquesJ The New York Times Prowling around a bureaucracy as ostensibly boring as the...
...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...
...maikets for all farmers, which is what they are supposed to do...
...While the Pentagon, for example, moved to cut off business with three dozen dairies—including some industrial giants—convicted of price-fixing and bid-rigging federal contracts to sell milk to schools and military bases, Agriculture expelled only two small, regional dairies...
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...This is the kind of endemic problem that should prompt voters to demand that Congress and the White House clean house—and soon...
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...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for October 1993 is presented to Dean Baquet with Diana B. HenriquesJ The New York Times Prowling around a bureaucracy as ostensibly boring as the Department of Agriculture strikes most reporters as being about as much fun as proofing the weekend weather page...
...Every agency went along, with one big exception: Agriculture...
...But Baquet and Henriques burrowed into two dozen internal government audits and 1,600 pages of internal correspondence to chronicle fraud and bureaucratic arrogance in a three-part series on how Agriculture's trade policies tend to enrich large, multinational agribusiness firms—not enlarge U.S...
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...Agriculture's enduringly cozy relations with its constituencies and a lack of effective congressional or OMB oversight...
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...In 1986, President Reagan ordered all federal departments to deny contracts to companies that had been suspended or removed from other government business—a straightforward reform intended to get companies that looted one agency out of the federal trough altogether...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 1
