Hersh’s Journalistic Bomb—Muffled by Indifference
In his March 5th New Yorker piece, The Redirection, Hersh lights off the explosive accusation that the Administration’s new policy may benefit our enemies in the war on terrorism.
Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters. He won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International reporting, exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War. Hardly a lightweight or a partisan, Hersh received the 2004 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, given annually by Long Island University to honor “contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.” This was his fifth Polk Award, the first one being a Special Award given to him in 1969.
His critics say Hersh makes too frequent reference to anonymous sources, implying that some of these sources are unreliable or even made up. Countering that, David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, maintains that he i…