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Seymour Hersh, the famed reporter known for breaking stories from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, said in a Washingtonpost.com chat today that "the major media have been part of the problem since 9-11, merely because they have far too often taken the president's public utterances at face value."

He added: "There also is a terrific unwillingness, perhaps understandable (though not by me), to make a moral judgment about a president's policies. There are plenty of people on the inside who are worried about the policies, especially among military guys, and I'm sure their views will increasingly become known."

Source: Editor & Publisher

Seymour Hersh, the famed reporter known for breaking stories from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, said in a Washingtonpost.com chat today that "the major media have been part of the problem since 9-11, merely because they have far too often taken the president's public utterances at face value."

He added: "There also is a terrific unwillingness, perhaps understandable (though not by me), to make a moral judgment about a president's policies. There are plenty of people on the inside who are worried about the policies, especially among military guys, and I'm sure their views will increasingly become known."

Source: Editor & Publisher

If you have only one article to read on this blog today, read this one written by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, chairman and publisher, and Russell T. Lewis, chief executive, The New York Times. Here is the beginning of their article: "Last Thursday, a federal district judge ordered a New York Times reporter, Judy Miller, sent to prison (see former posting). Her crime was doing her job as the founders of this nation intended. Here's what happened and why it should concern you." But in my opinion, this affair could be seen as a real gift to The New York Times: a few weeks ago Judith Miller was in a very uncomfortable situation - it's an understatement - after her "revelations" about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq... and now she becomes a hero defending press freedom! Well done! (Nevertheless, I have always considered the First Amendment as a fantastic tool to protect journalists and I agree with some of the article's statements).

If you have only one article to read on this blog today, read this one written by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, chairman and publisher, and Russell T. Lewis, chief executive, The New York Times. Here is the beginning of their article: "Last Thursday, a federal district judge ordered a New York Times reporter, Judy Miller, sent to prison (see former posting). Her crime was doing her job as the founders of this nation intended. Here's what happened and why it should concern you." But in my opinion, this affair could be seen as a real gift to The New York Times: a few weeks ago Judith Miller was in a very uncomfortable situation - it's an understatement - after her "revelations" about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq... and now she becomes a hero defending press freedom! Well done! (Nevertheless, I have always considered the First Amendment as a fantastic tool to protect journalists and I agree with some of the article's statements).

Good paper on the new New Yorker by the Boston Globe: "If anyone still thought of The New Yorker as just a stately literary magazine, the past few issues would have disabused them of that notion. For three weeks in a row, the magazine has published stories by Seymour Hersh that have brought wide attention to the abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners... Kathleen Hall Jamieson, head of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, said: "What The New Yorker may be doing is opening up a space for this kind of journalism . . . long-form, based on original investigative work, not only source work but document work -- a hard kind of work to do."

Source: Boston Globe