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...generation of new skeptics among newsmen. In Asia, young correspondents like David Halberstam of the Times, Malcolm Browne of Associated Press and Neil Sheehan of United Press International challenged the efficacy of U.S. policy with mounting impact. CBS showed Marines firing peasant huts with their Zippo lighters. Seymour Hersh, then a freelance, made Americans share the burden of My Lai. Contention over the war dragged on for a decade. The press appeared increasingly to be part of the opposition to two Administrations, a role
...grew. Bernstein, then 28, had been covering Virginia politics. Woodward, 29, an enrolled Republican who had been with the paper only nine months, was reporting on unsanitary restaurants and petty police graft. More experienced investigators like Sandy Smith of TIME, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, and James Polk of the Washington Star-News were later to enter the arena...
...only to hide another. Not only journalists but many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes across variously as insincerity, awkwardness, lack of genuine warmth. It would be disingenuous to argue that a certain visceral dislike did not color the professional attitudes of many newsmen. Seymour Hersh is more vehement (and perhaps more candid) than most: "I can't stand him. I hate Nixon. I don't like any man who doesn't pay his taxes and who blames associates for everything...
...Salzburg that he had been getting a raw deal over his role in wiretaps (see THE NATION). Until the issue is settled, the only incontrovertible fact in the affair is that it has prompted open questioning of how the press has handled the supersecretary. Says Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, whose New York Times story on the taps fanned Kissinger's wrath: "I don't think Kissinger has been subject to the same scrutiny that other officials have. I think he should be treated the same way everyone else is in this town...
...edition of The New York Times, Seymour Hersh (exposer of MyLai) wrote, "...Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt on have permitted covert surveillance and have authorized illegal burglaries to protect the country against what they perceived as threats to its existence. From 1941 until 1966, for example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued a policy of making otherwise illegal entries in connection with domestic intelligence-gathering operations...