and a voice spake unto him from the whirlwind, and said unto him Bitch, please.

[sisyphusshrugged]

Howie "Rush Limbaugh is just a light-hearted performer" Kurtz has a question.

Is Seymour Hersh becoming . . . respectable?

To be charitable, Sy Hersh has only been a hero of american journalism for 35 years, and sometimes it takes time for Howie to get to the memos.

What is there precisely that does not savor of respectability?

There is a trust-me aspect to Hersh's reporting, given his heavy reliance on unnamed sources. His latest piece quotes a "senior CIA official," "former high-level intelligence official," "military analyst," "government consultant" and "Pentagon consultant."

Two words, hotshot. Bob Woodward.

If your own paper had anything like the fastidious standards you appear to be suggesting are comme il faut, you'd be filling six pages every day with stories from the AP Gardening feed.

Jackass.

Comments

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Excellent points.

Seymour Hersh, who was among my heroes when I was a teenager and writing antiwar, anti-Nixon editorials for my high school newspaper, makes me (again) regret that I didn't follow up on my one-time ambition to be a journalist.

[(Anonymous)]

I almost fall off my chair laughing. Good job SS. lol.
rant on.

[snuh.livejournal.com]

After Jayson Blair and Jack Kelley, it's good to see Hersh get the recognition that he deserves and at the same time show how excellent journalism can raise people.

"What we're seeing is a difference between journalism and pseudo-journalism, between journalism and propaganda. The former seeks earnestly to serve the public. The latter seeks to manipulate it."
Pseudo-Journalists Betray the Public Trust By John S. Carroll, LA Times Editor - a *must* read!