Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Customs, and the Philadelphia police are conducting an investigation to find out how and why the cocaine-filled package arrived where it did, Richards said...
Still, these projects often are examples of daily journalism at its best: dogged, committed reporting that illuminates local problems and helps bring about change. Several such stories were honored last week with the newspaper world's most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with...
...Pulitzer judges also cited an Inquirer series called "Disorder in the Court," which exposed an array of abuses in the Philadelphia court system. Three reporters, Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger and Fredric N. Tulsky, spent more than two years pursuing the story. Their findings led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to assume control of the troubled local court system last April. The gold medal for public service went to a series by Pittsburgh Press Reporters Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis that exposed inadequate FAA screening of airline pilots for drug abuse and other medical problems...
Howard Stern is an equal-opportunity offender. With his raucous gibes and racy double entendres, he galls black and white, Jew and Gentile, man and woman. You name them, Howard Stern has insulted them. Stern's radio talk show, broadcast in New York City and Philadelphia weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., is perhaps the most scabrous of a genre that has come to be known as raunch radio. The brash, shaggy-haired Stern maintains that he could not care less whom he offends, but last week he offended the one group that could turn off his microphone...
...action that considerably broadens its definition of indecency on the airwaves, the FCC issued warnings to three radio licensees, among them WYSP- FM, the Philadelphia station that airs Stern's show, for broadcasting material that contained sexually explicit language. One of those stations, cited for broadcasting excerpts from a play describing homosexual practices, was referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution for obscenity. In a move that will undoubtedly affect -- and restrict -- the sexual content of what broadcasters say, the FCC suggested it will henceforth take enforcement action against shows it deems to be "indecent...