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...others eager for a stake in the fast-growing, energy-rich Denver market. Times Mirror had revenues of $1.6 billion last year from a variety of communications businesses (cable TV, magazines, book publishing). The firm also owns seven newspapers, including the Dallas Times Herald and Long Island's Newsday. But Times Mirror is best known as owner of the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,013,000), which under Publisher Otis Chandler, 52, has gained a reputation for spending lavishly to maintain editorial excellence...
...been presented to a grand jury. Look at NBC's television cameras set up in a Winnebago van near Senator Harrison Williams' door before the FBI even comes to call on him. Who leaked the word to NBC, the New York Times and Long Island's Newsday, and why? A special federal prosecutor has been named to find out, but evidently he is not going to ask those who know best-NBC, the Times and Newsday-and if asked, they're not likely to tell...
...leakers leak, but didn't think it necessary to discuss why newspapers publish information that could presumably wait until formal charges are filed. Convinced that news of Abscam was getting out, the FBI hurriedly completed its last interviews on the very Saturday that NBC, the Times and Newsday, each having checked out the facts on its own, broke the news. Naturally, nobody in charge at these three shops talks vulgarly of the thrill of a scoop...
Such a possibility, which bothers many lawyers, was less worrisome to NBC and Newsday. According to Bill Small, president of NBC News, "There was soul searching, but it's a story you had to go with. You can't sit on it. We haven't found them guilty. I can assure you that if charges are dismissed, we'll report it." Adds Newsday's editor Anthony Insolia: "We had it, it was accurate, we were satisfied. Our stories were very careful to point out that these were allegations. Whether the conduct was criminal or unethical...
...most detailed early reports were in Long Island's Newsday and the New York Times, the latter's report apparently based on an internal-and normally secret-Justice Department document called a prosecution memo or "pros-memo." That is a prosecutor's chronological summary of a mass of FBI evidence, and copies are sent to relevant FBI officials. The published details of the Justice Department's information brought howls of protest from Congress and also from the American Civil Liberties Union. Attorney General Civiletti was outraged too; he promised a thorough internal investigation to find...