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...swiftly set out to find the leaker. Although the company denied it, sources at GM said the giant automaker has offered a $30,000 bounty for information that could lead to the disloyal worker. GM clearly felt betrayed by the release of the confidential photographs. "People are very upset," said corporate spokesman Dee Allen. "It's no different from being on the Detroit Pistons and giving away the playbook...
Another Stephen King blood leaker is loosed upon the world, this one in a record first printing of 1.5 million copies. The ghost of Gutenberg, calling feebly for beer from the gridiron of some Germanic hell, must be wondering whether movable type was really a good idea...
...hardly a secret in Washington that North had provided information on many stories to a variety of news organizations, including TIME. "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration," one official told the Wall Street Journal. But no publication had ever fingered him as the source for a specific story until Newsweek decided that his accusations against Congress warranted such a disclosure. "When a guy lies on national television, at that point you have to reassess the rules," said Newsweek's media writer Jonathan Alter. "Given these unusual circumstances, we felt an obligation to point out to our readers that...
Ironically, the Wall Street Journal benefited last week from an entirely different kind of leak. A top national security official told the paper that "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration...
...other night, "you've been in the White House five weeks now and there has not been a single leak. I can't stand it much longer." Regan holds the press at arm's distance, centralizes paper flow, assigns staff authority meticulously--and thus could spot any big leaker. Benign terror reigns in the back corridors. Information is sorted, compressed, confined. "I'm the small end of the funnel," Regan explains pointedly. The policy struggle around the President has been diminished. Regan is the lone briefer on many issues. He has urged more frequent news conferences for the President, mostly...