{"id":8409,"date":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"Hersh: Don't trust Washington on Iraq \r\n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=8409","title":{"rendered":"Hersh: Don&#8217;t trust Washington on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent journalist Seymour Hersh says the US is &#8216;in real trouble&#8217; because news coverage on Iraq is anything but balanced and unbiased. <\/p>\n<p>When the American government says the US is winning in Iraq and is not torturing prisoners, they are just words, Hersh told his audience of journalism students in Regina, Canada. &#8220;We are in real trouble [in Iraq].&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the changes reporting has undergone since the Vietnam War, the award-winning journalist explained that reporters are now imbedded with troops who cloud their judgment and therefore do not touch the same kind of issues. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has led to a lot of lousy reporting,&#8221; continued Hersh. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it is bad for a journalist to come back (from covering a war) and say it s***s.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hersh said media outlets spread &#8216;fake&#8217; news and suggested his audience resort to translations of local media sources when learning about issues concerning the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Myron Hersh first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War. <\/p>\n<p>MT\/AA<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:12px\">http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=49193\u00a7ionid=3510203<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to veteran reporter Seymour Hersh news coverage on Iraq is anything but balanced and unbiased <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}