Your entire career has been based around the dogged pursuit of the truth. The fact you received so much pushback from your editors and colleagues indicates the corruption endemic to all corporate media organizations. Mistreating prisoners at Abu Graib and the massacre in Southeast Asia shouldn’t have been left vs. right political issues, but they were. That our government was able to exert heavy handed influence over journalism unfavorable to them is a sickening reminder of why under this current administration trust is at an all time low. And without proper self reflection for the damage they’ve inflicted on themselves I don’t see it improving at all. I’m pleased to be a paid subscriber of yours and of others in your situation who were pushed aside. I take truth over party politics 100% of the time.
Mr. Hersh I was probably your quintessential reader back in the first half of the 70’s... in college, draft age, male, rebellious, didn’t like Nixon, found McCarthy interesting and confused.
As years went forward, I was forced to buy the ’New Yorker’ (your articles were too long to read at the stand for free) and read you as often as humanly possible. Your writing style suited my attention span.
Your expose on the Russian pipeline was fantastic and I subscribed to you on SubStack. Good things do come to an end and its not a matter of you going south or me being unmovable in my opinions... it was your lack of willing to see that you still hold sway over your followers. The Democratic Party is not the same as it was in the 60’s and 70’s and even then you were a fringe Democrat, at best. I read into your articles that today you preferred the Democrats choices over the Republicans and there wasn’t any reasoning behind it other than your refusal to accept anything Republican (which is old school).
Your inability to see or if you do see it... your lack of expressing that Trump was the only (out of two choices) candidate that was close to your values up until 2008 or at least, what i perceived as your values... is why I didn’t renew my subscription. I always saw you as one who expressed your position without exception or excuse yet lately I saw a need to belong as you sled in with the current Democratic Party.
If I am wrong, I hope I see the light... if its you I will continue to the beginnings of your articles... I still love your style.
Back up our Osama story with names for sources. Also, if one listens outside your bubble, many of us are horrified that you and many journalists now readily admit how corrupt corporate media is, how biased and awful it actually is. But we smelly MAGA types were pilloried as conspiracy theorists and uneducated dolts for questioning them. You worked for some of those outlets.
That you are speaking this basic truth to us is boring. Ya - do journalism, its what we always expected from you SOBs. You rode that My Lai pony for a long time, and the Abu Ghraib reporting simply was not the equivalent. Many Americans don't mind torturing Jihadis who are trying to kill us - whether you like that or not, or whether we want to be open about it. We expect this kind of thing in war and while sure, it should be minimized it was never 'My Lai' redux.
I'm so tired of pro journalists preening to us on Substack. None of you are special, just do your damned work well and try not to lie to us okay? When you lowlifes do that, it's not worthy of applause, it's what we expect.
Hey, Mr. Hersh. Thanks for tracking Chuck Philips down. As you may know by now - he’s been vindicated. He was my late partner. If you want to come to the celebration of his remarkable life please hit me up on Facebook. All the best, Leigh
Thank the anti- establishment brave men and women harassed by the MSM and defended Trump and denounced the Twitter scandal and found a sanctuary here. Ultimately, thank Trump!
Well you better hold on to your horses Seymore ‘cuz we no longer a constitutional Republic as MAGA calls it, OR a Democracy as we Dems call it. It is now officially a BANANA REPUBLIC
A basic question that I keep bumping up against on Substack: how is journalistic integrity not compromised by an explicit profit motive? This still is a staple of teaching information literacy at the college level. A .com has a different motivation than a .gov or .edu or .org. The money motive is precisely what's corrupting traditional media. But when you, Chris Cillizza, and other high profile journalists hang out your own shingle here, aren't you 1) cashing in on the exposure that traditional venues gave you and 2) opening yourself to the same critique that you make here of CNN et al? In the old model (now admittedly vanished), there were editors and fact checkers and the imprimatur of an institution that, while flawed, defined its mission as a public service. It is difficult for me to accept a single individual as sufficient for the standard of reliability that journalism requires.
Why is the US omitting the warning for terrorist attacks in Russia was for 48 hours and NO update was given to Russia or put out by the US embassies? It was the US who screwed up not Russia.
Seymour, the Hero of The Truth..
Your entire career has been based around the dogged pursuit of the truth. The fact you received so much pushback from your editors and colleagues indicates the corruption endemic to all corporate media organizations. Mistreating prisoners at Abu Graib and the massacre in Southeast Asia shouldn’t have been left vs. right political issues, but they were. That our government was able to exert heavy handed influence over journalism unfavorable to them is a sickening reminder of why under this current administration trust is at an all time low. And without proper self reflection for the damage they’ve inflicted on themselves I don’t see it improving at all. I’m pleased to be a paid subscriber of yours and of others in your situation who were pushed aside. I take truth over party politics 100% of the time.
Mr. Hersh I was probably your quintessential reader back in the first half of the 70’s... in college, draft age, male, rebellious, didn’t like Nixon, found McCarthy interesting and confused.
As years went forward, I was forced to buy the ’New Yorker’ (your articles were too long to read at the stand for free) and read you as often as humanly possible. Your writing style suited my attention span.
Your expose on the Russian pipeline was fantastic and I subscribed to you on SubStack. Good things do come to an end and its not a matter of you going south or me being unmovable in my opinions... it was your lack of willing to see that you still hold sway over your followers. The Democratic Party is not the same as it was in the 60’s and 70’s and even then you were a fringe Democrat, at best. I read into your articles that today you preferred the Democrats choices over the Republicans and there wasn’t any reasoning behind it other than your refusal to accept anything Republican (which is old school).
Your inability to see or if you do see it... your lack of expressing that Trump was the only (out of two choices) candidate that was close to your values up until 2008 or at least, what i perceived as your values... is why I didn’t renew my subscription. I always saw you as one who expressed your position without exception or excuse yet lately I saw a need to belong as you sled in with the current Democratic Party.
If I am wrong, I hope I see the light... if its you I will continue to the beginnings of your articles... I still love your style.
Back up our Osama story with names for sources. Also, if one listens outside your bubble, many of us are horrified that you and many journalists now readily admit how corrupt corporate media is, how biased and awful it actually is. But we smelly MAGA types were pilloried as conspiracy theorists and uneducated dolts for questioning them. You worked for some of those outlets.
That you are speaking this basic truth to us is boring. Ya - do journalism, its what we always expected from you SOBs. You rode that My Lai pony for a long time, and the Abu Ghraib reporting simply was not the equivalent. Many Americans don't mind torturing Jihadis who are trying to kill us - whether you like that or not, or whether we want to be open about it. We expect this kind of thing in war and while sure, it should be minimized it was never 'My Lai' redux.
I'm so tired of pro journalists preening to us on Substack. None of you are special, just do your damned work well and try not to lie to us okay? When you lowlifes do that, it's not worthy of applause, it's what we expect.
Hey, Mr. Hersh. Thanks for tracking Chuck Philips down. As you may know by now - he’s been vindicated. He was my late partner. If you want to come to the celebration of his remarkable life please hit me up on Facebook. All the best, Leigh
Thank the anti- establishment brave men and women harassed by the MSM and defended Trump and denounced the Twitter scandal and found a sanctuary here. Ultimately, thank Trump!
Well you better hold on to your horses Seymore ‘cuz we no longer a constitutional Republic as MAGA calls it, OR a Democracy as we Dems call it. It is now officially a BANANA REPUBLIC
Correction: ‘Constitutional Republic’
Fuck off MAGAt
♥️🗽🙏🏻 You're an American hero! Steady, as she goes🛞⛵
A basic question that I keep bumping up against on Substack: how is journalistic integrity not compromised by an explicit profit motive? This still is a staple of teaching information literacy at the college level. A .com has a different motivation than a .gov or .edu or .org. The money motive is precisely what's corrupting traditional media. But when you, Chris Cillizza, and other high profile journalists hang out your own shingle here, aren't you 1) cashing in on the exposure that traditional venues gave you and 2) opening yourself to the same critique that you make here of CNN et al? In the old model (now admittedly vanished), there were editors and fact checkers and the imprimatur of an institution that, while flawed, defined its mission as a public service. It is difficult for me to accept a single individual as sufficient for the standard of reliability that journalism requires.
Excellent!
Thank You Seymour
Seeing that you were on Substack was part of the impetus for my joining and investing in it.
I’m with you, Seymour.
https://biffogram.substack.com/p/conspiracy-what-conspiracy
Unfiltered and unprogrammed…. Just how I like it too.
I’m thankful to have access to your work, especially in this new, unfiltered environment.
Why is the US omitting the warning for terrorist attacks in Russia was for 48 hours and NO update was given to Russia or put out by the US embassies? It was the US who screwed up not Russia.