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...reputation that Summers has been struggling to overcome since before he took over the Harvard presidency. A 1999 story in the Times reported him pleading with a journalist that “he would like to be described in the newspapers as anything except the ‘the brilliant but acerbic Larry Summers...
...veteran reporters who covered Summers in his early days would probably be sad to see the bluntness go. Almost every journalist contacted for this story warmly recalled the honesty and well-intentioned carelessness they were treated to whenever they interviewed him as a government official...
That said, it would certainly be an oversimplification to suggest that the media has grossly misconstrued Summers in its recent round of coverage. Even his most loyal journalist supporters, like BusinessWeek’s Owen Ullman, say his public persona does reflect key facets of his true personality...
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...
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...