{"id":366701,"date":"2018-06-25T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-conversation-with-seymour-hersh\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:45:49","slug":"a-conversation-with-seymour-hersh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-conversation-with-seymour-hersh\/","title":{"rendered":"a Conversation With Seymour Hersh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103174\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103174 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/hershdn-510x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/hershdn.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/hershdn-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/hershdn-768x338.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Seymour Hersh states that the \u201cdeadliest words\u201d in US media today are, \u201cI think.\u201d With media cycles constantly fluctuating and changing format and delivery based on website clicks it\u2019s hard to keep up and find good reporting. For example, Hersh points to a lack of coverage or deep analysis regarding the war in Yemen and Trump\u2019s removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/09\/25\/sudan-trump-travel-ban-uae-yemen\/\">Sudan from the travel ban list<\/a>, as crucial stories in need of further investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Hersh also refers to America\u2019s \u201ccontinuing special force operations and the never ending political divides\u201d across several continents that don\u2019t get enough play because of our current state of news coverage. Aside from \u201ctoday\u2019s newspapers that cannot afford to keep correspondents in the field,\u201d for Hersh, the news of today seems \u201cunstructured and chaotic,\u201d and is pieced together much like the country as \u201cpartisan and strident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0394437373\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath <\/em><\/a>(1970), and Pulitzer Prize recipient and best-selling author Seymour Hersh is \u201ca survivor from the golden age of journalism.\u201d Hersh, the author of numerous groundbreaking articles and nearly a dozen books, most recently, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1784784397\/counterpunchmaga\">The Killing of Osama bin Laden<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2017) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060195916\/counterpunchmaga\">Chain of Command: The Road from 9\/11 to Abu Ghraib<\/a>, <\/em>(2004) has just come out with his story and a revealing look at one of the top-rated investigative journalists in US history.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307263959\/counterpunchmaga\">Reporter: A Memoir<\/a>, <\/em>(Alfred A. Knopf, 2018)outlines Hersh\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/25\/a-reporters-reporter-a-conversation-with-seymour-hersh\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now! Seymour Hersh states that the \u201cdeadliest words\u201d in US media today are, \u201cI think.\u201d With media cycles constantly fluctuating and changing format and delivery based on website clicks it\u2019s hard to keep up and find good reporting. For example, Hersh points to a lack of coverage or deep analysis regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}