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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...
Despite his impressive record, Schorr gets into trouble because he is often too eager and cuts corners. He has been known to behave like an anxious rookie out to impress by elbowing others aside and pushing hard. Just before the Watergate cover-up indictments, for example, he went on-camera to predict that the grand jury would name more than 40 people. Seven names came down. At CBS, Washington Correspondent Leslie Stahl cordially detests him because, she tells friends, he hogged her Watergate stories...
Lone Reporter. Schorr's manner seems abrasive. The glasses are thick, the brow is wrinkled, the voice is from a gravel pit. Hustler Schorr concedes: "I guess I'm aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington...
...Schorr receives few thanks for what he does. "When he gets something," says a CBS colleague, "people don't come around and say, 'Great job, Dan,' as they might do for others around here. They say, 'Oh Jesus, Schorr's got another scoop. How do you think he did it?' " Which may explain why Schorr still sees himself as a gritty print reporter in an electronic jungle: "I'm just a refugee from newspaper work with a few tricks, wandering around in a TV world where there aren't many people doing...