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More than ever, it was the year of the investigator, the unmasker of official secrets and official wrongdoing. The New York Times won its 38th prize, this time in the "public service" category, for publishing the Pentagon papers. Neil Sheehan, the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg gave the documents and who wrote the principal analytical articles, received no individual recognition. Apparently the jurors felt that the Times's courage in printing the material in the face of Government legal pressure was the crucial element. Yet Columnist Jack Anderson (TIME cover, April 3) won the national reporting prize for obtaining...
...usually a beauty. Please add to the list of Anderson "off-target scoops," for which I, one of the victims, have yet to see a retraction or apology: his unquestioning and unwarranted support of Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, as revealed in the new bestseller The Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan; who is also winner of (oh, sweet irony!), this year's first annual Drew Pearson Award for investigative reporting...
...investigation. A separate grand jury in Los Angeles is considering the main case against Ellsberg, who has admitted to leaking the Pentagon study. Yet the Boston grand jury continues to sit. It is becoming increasingly evident that it now sits only to intimidate persons like Popkin, Noam Chomsky, Neil Sheehan, Susan Sheehan, Richard Falk and those legislators--such as Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Ala.)--who see through the government's tactics. Not only does the government lack justification for a Boston investigation: it seeks to question witnesses behind closed doors and on its own terms...
...Neil Sheehan was one of many newspapermen who, under daily dead line pressure, could not check the facts and more or less bought Arnheiter's story. He wrote this book in part to set the record straight - and he has done so admirably. Inadvertently, however, he may have set it a bit too straight. In place of a martyred captain, readers now tend to get a some what loony martinet. If that version is far closer to truth, it somehow discourages reflection upon the captain's tortuous character. Mixed in with the sheer fudge and swashbuckle, there...
...Sheehan did the Times presentation of the Pentagon papers and before that took the time to prove that large portions of a book chronicling U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam were fake. He naturally and justly decries the manipulation of the press, and cites the defense of the Vance's deposed skipper as a case in point...