Secret Programs at Root of Journalistic Brouhaha
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The growth of secret programs in the Pentagon budget has been a long-simmering political controversy, but it erupted into a journalistic dispute last week.
After the Philadelphia Inquirer won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories in 1987 on secret military programs, the National Journal lodged a formal protest with the Pulitzer Prize Board. The National Journal asserted that the Inquirer’s coverage followed a major story it published in 1986, as well as even earlier stories in the Denver Post, Defense Week and the Los Angeles Times.
The board said it would study the Journal’s protest.
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