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Critics have also condemned Feith and others at the Department of Defense for instituting neoconservative policies at the Pentagon. In January, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blasted Feith in an article for the New Yorker for allegedly aiding an effort to launch a U.S. military intervention in Iran. The Pentagon has denied the charges...
...greatest journalists of the last 50 years owe their success to lies and bourbon. Really. Seymour Hersh was a freelancer working for a no-name syndication agency when he heard a tip, blagged his way into a military attorney’s office (a tactic he has since called “smarmy”), and hunted down Lieutenant William J. Calley. He broke the story on the My Lai Massacre after he bought Calley steak and bourbon...
...Hersh was singularly committed to digging up the truth, to exposing lies. Thompson was committed not only to exposing lies, but to shaming the liar. When he was writing his best—when he was writing about Nixon—he wasn’t a journalist. He was an avenger and an elegist...
...writing was mournful, wounded, and intensely personal, even though the invective he hurled was superficial and the drugged-out trips painfully clichéd. He didn’t have the cold, analytical mind of Hersh (who admitted that he broke the My Lai story mostly because he lusted for the Pulitzer). Doc had the necessarily disappointed ideals of Kerouac and Bukowski. His writing always turned the knife, but never forgot the beating heart...
...Hersh Sagreiya ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a biochemical sciences concentrator in Kirkland House...