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Schorr's rebuttal, replies Times Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, is "irrelevant. What we make money from, which is publishing the news, seems to me totally a different context from what Schorr did, which was to traffic in the news." As for the Pentagon paperback, Oakes argues, all the Times did was to publish in more permanent form what had already appeared in the newspaper; what the Times opposes, says Oakes, is "selling to a third party, no matter for how lofty a cause...
...letter to the Times, Schorr reminded the editors that they had lost no time in publishing the Pentagon papers as a paperback, presumably not at a loss. He argued that his moral problem was "how to avoid making a profit." He had to find a publisher but did not see why that publisher "should be the sole beneficiary...
EVEN THE PHYSICAL make-up of a chapbook suggests that whatever it is getting at hasn't found its true from yet. Neither a paperback nor a resolutely bound hard-cover edition, it consists of a few pages, with an occasional misspelled word, tucked stiffly into a cardboard cover and secured by staples along the slender crease. It's a trial publication without the slick veneer that cajoles you into buying a book on sight...
...battle?and his subsequent marriage to his third wife Lynda, 28. He and British-born Lynda, a stewardess supervisor, met at a restaurant in Detroit, where Bailey was trying a case. When he first saw her she was sitting at a table with one of his associates reading a paperback novel. Bailey walked up to the table and grumped, "Forget that trash and read something worthwhile." He threw down a copy of The Defense Never Rests. As Lynda tells it: "I had never before heard of Lee Bailey. I called him a proper cocky bastard. He fired back a comment...
Developments have not been linear; there are fewer newspapers today than there were 50 years ago, and new forms threaten older ones. The staggering audiences for mass communications have access to paperback books, Xerox copies, photography, films and a variety of other forms. Millions of Americans watch or hear the news at least three times a day-before work, at dinnertime and before sleep. Commercials, discussion shows, documentaries all provide further information...