Seymour Hersh: Banishing Truth


Truth Dig has the article Banishing Truth. When Pam Wall shared this story on Facebook, she used the following excerpt from the article:

The later part of Hersh’s career is the most distressing. He was writing for The New Yorker when Barack Obama was elected president. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, socialized with Obama and was apparently wary of offending the president. When Hersh exposed the fictitious narrative spun out by the Obama administration about the killing of Bin Laden, the magazine killed the story, running instead a report about the raid, provided by the administration, from the point of view of one of the SEALs who was on the mission. Hersh resigned. He published the account of the raid in the London Review of Books, the beginning of his current exile to foreign publications. When we most urgently need Hersh and good investigative reporters like him, they have largely disappeared. A democracy, at best, tolerates them. A failed democracy, like ours, banishes them, and when it does, it kills its press.”

This is why I feel justified in always referring to the newspaper as “The dreaded New York Times”. Much as I dislike Trump, I realize he did manage to echo some of the real disappointments of the USA people when he campaigned. One of those disappointments was in fake news, although he doesn’t always understand what news is the fake news.

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