Word: hersh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quote or identify him, period," says former TV Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who is now director of Harvard's Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "You can't eat off a source's plate and then later say you don't like the food," comments Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh. Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Nicholas Horrock, a former Newsweek correspondent, felt compelled to promise his reporters that the paper would never compromise their pledges of confidentiality. Said he: "It's a watershed change in policy to name your own sources. It's outrageous...
...Hersh's explanations in the Atlantic seem far more convincing. They involve no conspiracies or even any evil intent on either side. Yet that is hardly reassuring. It is in some ways more frightening to be reminded just how fragile sophisticated military systems are and how frail their human operators...
Carl Gershman, 41, president of the NED and a former counselor to Jeane Kirkpatrick when she was U.N. Ambassador, seemed to have no mea culpas in mind. Citing the agreement that allowed the NED to "consult" with the IFP, Gershman expressed concern about a number of the selections -- Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power, Jonathan Kwitny's Endless Enemies and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth -- saying that they reflected the views "of only one segment of the American political spectrum." He asked not that they be withdrawn but that others from a conservative perspective be included...
...wanted to test Soviet radar, there are a lot better ways to do it than with a 747 jumbojet full of civilians." Moscow certainly remains eager to promote its version of events. It has taken the unusual step of allowing a well-known U.S. investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, to interview Soviet Chief of Staff Nikolai Ogarkov about the shooting and to visit a Soviet airbase...
...fall, Kissinger rises like the Phoenix. The Central America Commission leadership is only one manifestation of the rescusitation of his reputation; Kissinger reportedly sees Shultz and Reagan regularly. It is Kissinger, the scoundrel, who may carry on the Nixon banner, not Shultz or Weinberger, two men of integrity. Sy Hersh's darts were sharp indeed, but not sharp enough. They don't matter anymore The American people value competence, and it looks like Cap and George don't measure...