Monthly Journalism Award
'That's right. I never talk to you about it because you're doing the right thing and I'm working with your staff and they know that I know you.'" Moffet's journey from firebrand to the ranks of the...
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...When PrimeTime Live sent one lab a batch of pre-ex-amined slides for inspection, the lab misidentified 70 percent of cancerous slides as normal...
...Little of what goes wrong here can be attributed to wicked people doing evil...
...Far more often, it's nice people doing well...
...I have a much better appreciation for how markets work and market-driven forces as opposed to regulatory...
...When handling a volatile foreign leader, how does the president know how to walk the tightrope between toughness and provocation...
...But he also realizes that his approach as a legislator would be a liability now...
...I never talk to you about it because you're doing the right thing and I'm working with your staff and they know that I know you.'" Moffet's journey from firebrand to the ranks of the well-heeled is not unusual, though his voyage covered more ideological ground than most...
...The agency's most public fiasco came from its assessment that Haiti's president-in-exile, Jean-Bertrand Aris-tide, suffered from a history of mental illness...
...But each one was wrong...
...The winner will be announced in the October issue...
...The C.I.A.'s record on that point is not encouraging," he writes...
...Sawyer's on-target investigation shows that a woman's first line of defense is in desperate need of reinforcement...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award For May 1994 Is Presented to Diane Sawyer and Robbie Gordon, PrimeTime Live For June 1994 Is Presented to Thomas Omestad, Foreign Affairs Helene Lewis had four pap smears taken in eight years to check for cervical cancer, and each one came back normal...
...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...
...Unfortunately, he relies on the C.I.A.'s psychological profiles, exercises in cocktail-party psychology jigsawed together with incomplete and often dubious information...
...Frankly, my views have been shaped as I've gone along...
...When I was a congressman, I was an advocate...
...Their sources, it turns out, were Aristide's opponents in the military who now rule in his absence...
...And in a crisis that threatens war, flawed profiles could lead to deadly miscalculation...
...We fought the utility companies, and that was the right thing to do...
...It's a lesson Moffet learned later than most...
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...Omestad warns that the stakes are far greater when it comes to Kim Jong II, the new dictator of North Korea...
...What "works here" is largely prescribed by what allows people to stick around and make money, and for the city's players, sticking around and making money requires a sense of team spirit...
...But the style of the advocate doesn't work here...
...Pap smears can be invaluable help in identifying the early stages of cervical cancer, when it is easily treatable...
...PrimeTime Live's undercover investigation of cervical cancer screening labs reveals how poor training of technicians, outdated equipment, and a salary system that rewards speed above accuracy contribute to the high error rate that cost Lewis and many others their lives...
...Once you appreciate how this leads to inane policy, missiles that don't work, and an insider culture that bends even those who came to town promising change, you get a sense of why Washington's niceness should be better known...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 9
