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...Leak Problem...
There can be hazards on both sides. The leaker may be fired if discovered; the reporter puts his professional standards on the line. There are some situations in which leaks should not be printed. If the material contains real national security secrets?there are some?restraint is clearly called for. If a leak clearly violates accepted legal procedure?in a grand jury hearing or a trial, for instance?publication is justified only if it serves some obvious and overriding public interest. Such cases are rare, and the leaks that are all too common in criminal proceedings, though ostensibly published...
...Watergate scandal, while the Administration was in its see-no-evil stage, newsmen who suspected that monstrous wrongdoing had occurred were justified in getting information as best they could. It was sometimes argued that a leak from a committee or an investigation merely got out news a little earlier than it would have been published anyway; but it is also possible that without publicity, the outcome of the proceedings would have been different and the facts would never have been disclosed. That justification, however, diminished as the official inquiry became more vigorous. Joseph Kraft and others have argued that after...
...Watergate coverage, such judgments must be made repeatedly in connection with leaks. As the accompanying cover story points out (see pages 68-73), the reporter's and editor's decisions must depend on many factors-the nature of the leak, its apparent accuracy, on whether it comes from a judicial body or otherwise. He must weigh the possible damage to individual reputations against the public interest. The journalist cannot assert the right to print everything and anything; he must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision...
...with the whole issue if it heard the Doar briefings, then the debate over the same evidence in committee, again on the House floor, and finally once more in a Senate trial. Yet open hearings, belatedly backed by the White House, would at the least have largely eliminated the leak problem...