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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Seymour Hersh On Obama, NSA And The 'Pathetic' American Media

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.
Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would" – or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! this guy is known as one of the most liberal journalists and writers EVER...this is amazing.

his book is exposing the lie of the killing of bin laden. should be a great book. and bashing the lapdog media; this doesn't get any better than this!

Anonymous said...

God bless him!