{"id":23958,"date":"2017-02-16T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23958"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:54:54","slug":"seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/16\/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Intercept<\/em> has the article and video clip <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/01\/25\/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/Z0WYHMYc-biiQQJhC.html\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The material above is the main point of the article, but I also wanted to give you the following excerpt which has some wisdom on what we could hope for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile expressing fears about Trump\u2019s agenda, Hersh also called Trump a potential \u201ccircuit breaker\u201d of the two-party political system in the U.S. \u201cThe idea of somebody breaking things away, and raising grave doubts about the viability of the party system, particularly the Democratic Party, is not a bad idea,\u201d Hersh said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we could build on in the future. But we have to figure out what to do in the next few years.\u201d He added: \u201cI don\u2019t think the notion of democracy is ever going to be as tested as it\u2019s going to be now.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept has the article and video clip Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}