Seymour Hersh On Obama, NSA And The 'Pathetic' American Media -- The Guardian
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.
It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".
He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an unpopular messenger of truth.
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Update #1: Sy Hersh on Osama bin Laden raid: “Not one word of it is true” -- Elias Isquith, Slate
Update #2: Seymour Hersh Rips US Media: 'Carrying Water for Obama' -- John Nolte, Breitbart
My Comment: What a strange day for me .... I have been agreeing to articles (or at least some parts of it) written by far left journalists who I have never been in agreement with before. Here is another.
Update: I should mention that unlike Seymour Hersh I do believe in the White House version of what happened during the Bin Laden raid .... but aside from Bin Laden .... Seymour Hersh is dead-on-right in his analysis on how the mainstream media has been behaving and reporting on this White House).
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