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by Lisa O’Carroll
http://www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2013
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.
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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.
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via http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/sep/27/seymour-hersh-obama-nsa-american-media
see
Lee Camp: What You Don’t Know About The #NSA Spying Scandal (with Chris Hedges) #NDAA
Spilling the NSA’s Secrets: Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks
Chris Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career, Part 2
Finian Cunningham: The cover-up of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and Navy SEALs’ deaths
Dandelion Salad 
The hallmarks of the 21st century: lies and deceptions. Not that it was any better last century.
Fantastic! can’t wait…