Ben Bullard
Pulitzer journalist Seymour
Hersh, who first earned recognition for breaking the My Lai massacre scandal,
doesn’t buy the Obama Administration’s narrative of how Osama bin Laden was
taken down. In fact, he thinks American media is mostly garbage and coddles
President Barack Obama instead of hitting the streets to suss out the truth
behind sanctioned press releases.
Hersh told The Guardian American media – and The
New York Times, in particular – spends most of its energies “carrying water
for Obama than I ever thought they would.”
From the interview:
“Do you think Obama’s been
judged by any rational standards? Has Guantanamo closed? Is a war over? Is
anyone paying any attention to Iraq? Is he seriously talking about going into
Syria? We are not doing so well in the 80 wars we are in right now, what the
hell does he want to go into another one for. What’s going on [with
journalists]?
… Why do newspapers constantly
cite the two or three groups that monitor drone killings. Why don’t we do our
own work?
Our job is to find out
ourselves, our job is not just to say – here’s a debate’ our job is to go
beyond the debate and find out who’s right and who’s wrong about issues. That
doesn’t happen enough. It costs money, it costs time, it jeopardises, it raises
risks.”
As for the bin Laden
narrative?
“Nothing’s been done about
that story, it’s one big lie, not one word of it is true,” he said. “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 bullsh*t report.”
Hersh said his solution to the
lapdog media problem would involve firing 90 percent of America’s newspaper
editors and replacing them with “editors that you can’t control;” people “who
look you in the eye and say, ‘I don’t care what you say.’”
Then he’d shut down the major
television news networks and “start all over, tabula rasa.”
Who wants to go first?
Ben Bullard, Personal Liberty Digest, September 27, 2013
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