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OCR Page 1 of 53THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
K
REVIEW OF TUES. PAPERS
May 21, 1974
ADMIN
"RN Relays Note Sailor Put in Bottle" is p. 1 LA Times account by
Irwin. P. 2 photo of Navy man Metivier
RN Finds Note in Bottle"
is also p. 1 Trib
"Bottle of Cheer for RN" is the way NY News
puts it
Sun w/ inside head: "Bid In Bottle Floats To The Very
Top. "
Inquirer reports the sailor's grandfather, unsure about taking
the call from RN, said, "There was still the possibility it was a crank.
But when RN came on the line I recognized his voice
I said to my
wife, it either had to be RN or [impressionist] Rich Little. 11 Wm. Staples
added, "The longer he talked the more flabbergasted I became, " and he
asked RN if his grandson was in trouble "for littering the waterways. 11
Monitor's Sperling reports Clawson says press has committed
"incredibly major excesses¹ in W'gate coverage. Rejecting theory of
press "vendetta" against RN, Clawson "instead attributes what he sees
as unfair coverage to reporters 'who didn't
go to great lengths to
round out
selective leakage. 11 He also noted when 12-20 reporters
are assigned to a story, "there's incredible internal pressure to write
12-20 stories. " Clawson said, "Sometimes there's a good reason, of
course, for a main story. And there may be even good reason for 2-3
sidebars. But there's seldom good reason for 12-20 stories. 11 In
going past the 1st 3-5 stories, he added, "you're publishing stories
which sometimes are terribly peripheral. 11 Asked if press hadn't been
the "messenger," not the "message, 11 Clawson notes there's been more
journalistic commitment to reporting W'gate than since WWII and "when
does the time come when the press stops being the conveyor of info and
begins to become the instigator? And that is, not by design, not by
conspiracy and not by anybody's fault, has there been a reversal of the
normal journalism role in this thing. 11
Clawson added he was "not downgrading" press' roll "in the investi-
gative function, tho I'm saying that had they not performed that function
I think the US district court probably would have anyway. 11 Referring
to leakage, he pointed out he saw on TV news 1 Judiciary member "after
another walk out and in effect tell what was in the exec session. And I'm
not saying that's bad, per se but each person who violated the terms
of the exec session, of course, put his own personal spin on the material
he talked about publicly. 11 Sperling notes Ken was "particularly critical
of what he sees as undue focus" on t'scripts. He noted t'scripts
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