September 27, 2013 "Information
Clearing House - "The
Guardian"
- 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.
Hersh is
writing a book about national security and has devoted a chapter
to the bin Laden killing. He says a recent report put out by an
“independent” Pakistani commission about life in the Abottabad
compound in which Bin Laden was holed up would not stand up to
scrutiny. “The Pakistanis put out a report, don’t get me going
on it. Let’s put it this way, it was done with considerable
American input. It’s a bullshit report,” he says hinting of
revelations to come in his book.
The Obama
administration lies systematically, he claims, yet none of the
leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print
titles, challenge him.
“It’s
pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick
on this guy [Obama],” he declares in an interview with the
Guardian.
“It used
to be when you were in a situation when something very dramatic
happened, the president and the minions around the president had
control of the narrative, you would pretty much know they would
do the best they could to tell the story straight. Now that
doesn’t happen any more. Now they take advantage of something
like that and they work out how to re-elect the president.
He isn’t
even sure if the recent revelations about the depth and breadth
of surveillance by the National Security Agency will have a
lasting effect.
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