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Meet the Press. The guest is Adm. Thomas Moorer, who will undoubtedly be questioned about Seymour Hersh's New York Times series that traced Pentagon spying to Moorer's office. Ch. 4, 4:30 p.m., 1/2 hour...
...last decade has not all been triumph at the Times. It was badly outdistanced by the Washington Post on Watergate. Not until the Times in 1972 hired Seymour Hersh, who first exposed the My Lai massacre, did its Washington bureau do much in the way of investigative reporting. Shrinking profits have twice prompted Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger to send somber Yuletide messages to employees warning of economies ahead. Its editorial staff has been trimmed slightly...
...recent years, Halberstam has been supplanted as the nation's premier investigative reporter by Seymour Hersh, who revealed in staccato succession the MyLai massacre, illegal air strikes against North Vietnam in 1971, and, most recently, the one and one-half year long secret bombing of Cambodia...
...ACCOMPLISHMENTS of these people and a few others aside, the American press has been most noteworthy for its mediocrity. Reporters encounter rumors without checking them, newspapers print lies without questioning them. The MyLai story, for example, was circulated widely in Vietnam, but Hersh alone had the presence of mind, the courage to investigate it. The fear of ruffling the feathers of any potential opposition at present governs American journalism. It is no surprise that the typical reporter at some time in his career does public relations work; the difference between the two professions in this country is generally mythical...
...blandest and least provocative manner. Their philosophy in its most banal formulation is: aim at the lowest common denominator of public interest and avoid alientating either the Chicago Tribune or the Podunk Gazette. Investigative reporting that might raise hackles anywhere is, of course, out of the question: how Hersh managed to break the MyLai story while working for the AP is one of the great unanswered questions of our time...