Hersh- from both sides now...

[Joseph Tracy]

Just listened to the Hersh book in sound recording. When Massing says Hersh’s criticism of contemporary journalism is “implicit”  I wonder if he read the first chapter. Hersh’s critique of what is passing for journalism could not be more explicit and in many ways the rest of the book spends much time showing how things got to be this way. Massing, has anybody ever heard of this guy?, wants to take down Hersh for the work he has done recently, but this was happening every step of Hersh’s career and his case relies on pure opinion and  one-sided history just like the critics all along. He shows no evidence of being qualified to evalute Hersh’s final years reporting or evaluating the complex issues of the Syrian war. He actually twists Hersh’s take on Assad.
  The part of the review that reports the essential content of Reporter is fine and the book he is reviewing is well worth listening to or reading. Hersh can be self serving and sometimes ignores other people’s journalism. But he filled a role he seemed to be destined for with pithy, fact filled stories that grabbed the nation’s attention, pissed off presidents , and exposed the shadows of American power like few reporters have ever done, following a contrarian path reminiscent of his friend I.F. Stone.


> On Sep 27, 2018, at 9:07 PM, jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.thenation.com/article/seymour-hersh-reporter/
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> An interesting review of Hersh's new memoir by Michael Massing, doing some interesting work over at The Nation.
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