The Online Threat, Seymour Hersh

[Rex Brynen]

I'm never sure what to make of Hersh these days. He publishes some absolutely great stuff, and the article above is certainly very interesting.

On the other hand, some (although certainly not all) of the things he's written in my areas of expertise are flat wrong, and I suspect he is being led by his sources.

Given the nature of the topics he writes on, of course, it is always hard to tell whether it is a starling revelation, or a startling mistake.

[Tom Odom]

I'm never sure what to make of Hersh these days. He publishes some absolutely great stuff, and the article above is certainly very interesting.

On the other hand, some (although certainly not all) of the things he's written in my areas of expertise are flat wrong, and I suspect he is being led by his sources.

Given the nature of the topics he writes on, of course, it is always hard to tell whether it is a starling revelation, or a startling mistake.

That would make him the Doug MacArthur of journalism...

[Rex Brynen]

Given the nature of the topics he writes on, of course, it is always hard to tell whether it is a starling revelation, or a startling mistake.

That is, of course, a STARTLING revelation.

The "starling revelation" is classified way too highly to discuss here.

[Ken White]

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