Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and 'pathetic' American media
Seymour Hersh
The Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'
Seymour Hersh's specifics include closing the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sacking 90% of editors in publishing and returning to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says in a Guardian interview, is to be an outsider. The Guardian interview notes "it doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as 'the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.'"
"He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an unpopular messenger of truth.
"Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends 'so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would' – or the death of Osama bin Laden. 'Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true,' he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011."