The Dallas Times Herald has lodged two formal protests over the recent awarding of two Dallas Press Club Katie Awards to The Dallas Morning News, alleging that the News “ignored the spirit and the letter of the contest rules.” The protests came in a November 19 letter written to the Katie judges committee by Times Herald Associate Editor Roy E. Bode.
Protest No. 1: Bode says the News submitted 10 days of stories on the Delta 191 crash for the “Spot News” award. The Herald only submitted the first day’s coverage. Bode says the News is stretching the meaning of “spot” news, though the rules don’t define the term. Also, complains Bode, the News prepared its entry in a large scrapbook instead of the 8 1/2 by 11 form called for in the rules.
Protest No. 2: Bode asked the committee to “disqualify” an award given to News photographer David Woo for feature photography, claiming it was a variation of a photo published before the beginning of the current year and therefore ineligible under contest rules. Staffers at the News privately call the Herald’s allegations sour grapes.
Who says teenage criminal mischief doesn’t pay? On the contrary. Andrew Schapter, a close friend and confidant of several members of Fort Worth’s Legion of Doom, flew to Los Angeles recently to consult with Ron Howard Productions about the possibility of making a television movie on Cowtown’s infamous vigilante group of young Nazis. Since leaving Paschal High School, the clean-cut Schapter has done modeling work for two Dallas modeling agencies and has been touted as one of Dallas’ most promising model/actors. Schapter, who has been an unofficial spokesman for the Doomers and is often called the “Doomsday Kid,” wants a part in the movie.
First Richard Nixon recognized Red China, then the Democratic party recognized women, and now comes another recognition milestone of sorts: The New York Times has recognized Dallas. Last month The Times opened a Dallas bureau in the new Belo Building. The trailblazing journalist chosen to man the paper’s Dallas bureau is 35-year-old Thomas C Hayes, formerly the Los Angeles-based western economic correspondent for The Times.
Although he’ll also cover business news for The Times from Denver to Atlanta, Hayes says 80 percent of his time will be spent researching and writing stories in Texas. “We’re setting up the bureau in Dallas because of the size and importance of Texas and because Dallas is so diversified,” he says.
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