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It's unfortunate, but Sy Hersh has kinda flown the coop in the last 10 years. He egged on the Seth Rich conspiracy and tried to deny the US killed bin Laden. Th

by tootie 4y ago

It's unfortunate, but Sy Hersh has kinda flown the coop in the last 10 years. He egged on the Seth Rich conspiracy and tried to deny the US killed bin Laden. The New Yorker has basically disowned him and he hasn't had a byline in many years.

kraussvonespy 4y ago
Too bad the New Yorker abandoned him. If your writing makes it past the editors, fact checkers and attorneys at that mag, you're probably golden. The effort they spent on Lawrence Wright's Scientology article was pretty hardcore: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/133561256 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/133561256
- tootie 4y ago
  They explicitly dumped him because his reporting could not be validated and he insisted on publishing anyway. https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-passed-on-seymour-hershs-bin-laden-story-206933 https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-...
GAN_Game 4y ago
> tried to deny the US killed bin Laden If he denied the US killed bin Laden he would be unreliable. He never denied the US killed bin Laden. You saying he said that is what is unreliable. He said that some of the White House and Pentagon assertions about bin Laden, which the New York Times did not question in the days after (but did question, to some extent, later on) were not accurate. Particularly that no one high up in the Pakistani Army, government or intelligence knew Bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Hersh asserted that was incorrect, as were some other things.
- jessaustin 4y ago
  The alleged "compound" of bin Laden was located less than a mile from PMA Kakul [0]. So there was at least one odd thing about this event: would we expect that the world's most wanted terrorist could live across the street from USMA West Point for five years, without the government knowing? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_in_Abbottabad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_i...
  - Teever 4y ago
    Your question makes me wonder if they even bothered to check areas around US domestic military bases for OBL.
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pessimizer 4y ago
A lot of journalists with extremely long track records and tons of accolades were excluded from media outlets after 2016 for not reporting correctly.
- WeylandYutani 4y ago
  Nobody was excluded in my country but America going insane was COMPLETELY missed by almost every expert and America watcher. It was funny how suddenly all the journalists started to report from Kentucky or Alabama instead of Fifth avenue. As the media it is your job to explain how the world works.

by tootie 4y ago

kraussvonespy 4y ago

Too bad the New Yorker abandoned him. If your writing makes it past the editors, fact checkers and attorneys at that mag, you're probably golden. The effort they spent on Lawrence Wright's Scientology article was pretty hardcore: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/133561256 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/133561256

tootie 4y ago
They explicitly dumped him because his reporting could not be validated and he insisted on publishing anyway. https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-passed-on-seymour-hershs-bin-laden-story-206933 https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-...

GAN_Game 4y ago

> tried to deny the US killed bin Laden If he denied the US killed bin Laden he would be unreliable. He never denied the US killed bin Laden. You saying he said that is what is unreliable. He said that some of the White House and Pentagon assertions about bin Laden, which the New York Times did not question in the days after (but did question, to some extent, later on) were not accurate. Particularly that no one high up in the Pakistani Army, government or intelligence knew Bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Hersh asserted that was incorrect, as were some other things.

jessaustin 4y ago
The alleged "compound" of bin Laden was located less than a mile from PMA Kakul [0]. So there was at least one odd thing about this event: would we expect that the world's most wanted terrorist could live across the street from USMA West Point for five years, without the government knowing? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_in_Abbottabad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_i...
- Teever 4y ago
  Your question makes me wonder if they even bothered to check areas around US domestic military bases for OBL.

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pessimizer 4y ago

A lot of journalists with extremely long track records and tons of accolades were excluded from media outlets after 2016 for not reporting correctly.

WeylandYutani 4y ago
Nobody was excluded in my country but America going insane was COMPLETELY missed by almost every expert and America watcher. It was funny how suddenly all the journalists started to report from Kentucky or Alabama instead of Fifth avenue. As the media it is your job to explain how the world works.