Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia...
...recent piece in the conservative magazine "Insight" proclaimed this the year of the crimebusters. District Attorneys in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have all provided newspapers with headlines as they bring in one successful indictment after another. In the process, political corruption and organized crime have been death severe blows...
...Pennsylvania, which may have the most litigious political hierarchy in the nation, media organizations, large and small, have repeatedly been sued. The hardest hit: the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister paper the Daily News face pending suits by two of the seven judges of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a state appellate judge, the president of the Philadelphia city council, a former Philadelphia mayor, a former district attorney and a former U.S. attorney...
...Columbia Journalism Review and other organizations have found the impact greatest on smaller publications, on marginal stories and in indirect ways like excessive editorial scrutiny that can discourage reportorial enterprise. After repeated libel suits (which he has almost always won), Irvin Lieberman, publisher of a group of suburban Philadelphia newspapers, has "emasculated" his papers' investigative zeal. "I'm a hell raiser, and I think a lot of hell needs to be raised," he says. "But I can't jeopardize my family business just to exercise my First Amendment rights...
...calf, stretched, scraped and dried. The ink, a blend of oak galls and dyes. The light, an oil lamp. The instrument, a feather quill. All nature contributing to the assignment, human nature in the form of Jacob Shallus, ordinary American citizen, son of a German immigrant to Philadelphia, soldier, patriot, father of eight and, at the time of the Constitutional Convention, assistant clerk to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The convention handed Shallus the documents for copying on Sept. 15, 1787. He had 40 hours to transfer to four sheets of parchment 4,440 words, for which the payment...