Word: hersh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seymour Hersh says he is bored with journalism...
Good Morning! Sometime during your four years you will come up against this show, and now is the most painless time to do it. The hosts, John Willis and Janet Langhart are two facile, smiling zombies and perhaps their interview with Seymour Hersh, who reveals such people in the government, will reveal more about them. Ch. 5, 9 a.m. 1 hour...
...President deliberately make that off-the-record lunchtime disclosure in order to keep the paper-and the hard-charging Hersh-off the assassination trail? Government and corporate officials occasionally try to "lock up" news organizations with strategically placed not-for-publication disclosures. In the President's case, it is unlikely that he spoke out of guile. "I don't know how devious the President is," answers Ron Nessen, "and I'm not going to ask him." Managing Editor Rosenthal sees no skulduggery in the President's remark. Says he: "How did he know that we would...
...paper elected to be so trustworthy. "As far as I'm concerned, when you've got that many people around a table, nothing is off the record," says Associate Editor Tom Wicker, who attended the lunch. "But I work here, so I accepted the decision." Says Hersh: "Things have a way of leaking-which is why it's ridiculous to make those agreements...
...journalists often find it essential to let their sources say things privately that they would never say otherwise. Some of these sources may try to entomb sensitive information by using the off-the-record stratagem, but the presidential luncheon episode seems to prove, as Seymour Hersh says, that such things do have a way of getting...