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While the Voice was building a name for itself with its Pike papers publicity, another one of Publisher Clay Felker's ventures was running into identity problems. Felker has been preparing to launch a biweekly magazine based in Los Angeles and modeled closely on his successful New York. Trouble is, someone else says he owns the title Felker wants to use: New West...
...first it seemed unlikely that CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr would face problems on Capitol Hill as a result of his role in the publication of the embargoed report on CIA and FBI operations by Representative Otis Pike's Select Committee on Intelligence. But last week, by a vote of 269 to 115, the House ordered its twelve-member ethics committee to investigate the "Pike papers" leak. Conceivably, the committee could recommend to the House almost anything, from no action against Schorr at all to removal of his accreditation to the House press gallery. A citation for contempt of Congress...
Although it will hardly take on Pentagon papers proportions, the case of the Pike papers started yet another flap over the handling of secret information by reporters. CBS Washington Correspondent Daniel Schorr finally admitted that he was the one who gave New York's weekly broadside, the Village Voice (circ. 152,000), a copy of Representative Otis Pike's House Intelligence Committee's report on CIA and FBI covert operations (see THE NATION). The House had voted not to release it, but, said Schorr, he acted on "an inescapable decision of journalistic conscience." Although the document contained...
Schorr's admission was forthright, but it raised more questions than it answered. For one thing, how he originally acquired the Pike papers remained unknown at week's end and seemed certain to become the subject of a federal investigation...
Cover Blown. Even murkier was the relationship between Schorr and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that gives legal aid to journalists involved in first amendment-related disputes. Schorr approached the committee for help in getting the Pike papers published, and through the help of the committee was put in touch with a literary agent who explored various possibilities; the committee agreed to accept as a donation any proceeds from the sale of the report...