Pentagon Mutiny on Syria Dismissed by 'Liberal' Media

[CJCRANE]

EXCERPT:

The American mainstream press has both neglected and disparaged Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh recently for reporting on how, for more than two years, senior U.S. military leaders subverted President Obama's strategy to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, with some attacking Hersh for having the temerity to rely on unnamed sources. The so-called liberal media has exhibited a tendency to defend the Obama administration mantra that Assad "must go," and Hersh's account runs counter to this well-established gospel.

Vox, a purported liberal news site, assaulted Hersh for basing his report on an anonymous senior advisor to the Joint Chiefs, claiming that the journalist made "bizarre" claims in the past, "giving us little reason to trust him." Further, not a single major news agency picked up Hersh's allegations, the nature of which typically would be handled as a front-page bombshell.

Let's be clear -- Hersh is not some amateur blogger-conspiracist to be marginalized. For one, he was awarded the Pulitzer in 1970 for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam and its subsequent cover-up. Noam Chomsky, moreover, told this scribe that "everything" the veteran writer does should be taken seriously.

During an interview with Democracy Now! Hersh shrugged off these denunciations, arguing that on any given day news agencies of record are full of anonymous sources. Hersh said he worked for the New York Times for years through Watergate and Vietnam and won many prizes based on stories derived from a single source.

LINK Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/pentagon-mutiny-on-syria_b_8879792.html

[Renew Deal]

1. Didn't Hersh have a story recently that was severely troubled?

People got worked up over a Bin Laden story. I think a lot of people backed away from him after that.

[rjsquirrel]

2. More than one

But when my crazy right wing relative is the telling me I gotta read Sy Hersh, I know something ain't right in the world. She keeps insisting he has the best sources.

I told her she never thought that when his target was Bushco Torture Inc.

[CJCRANE]

4. So you agreed with Hersh on Bushco torture but not so much his latest revelations?

[Renew Deal]

5. I have no strong opinion on either

I read his stories as additional information. I don't remember the Bin Laden story, but I think the issue was a big claim with no source.

[CJCRANE]

3. A lot of people are troubled by his stories because they don't jibe with the official version.

FWIW I think he's a limited hangout merchant who provides a counter narrative with added finger pointing and plausible deniability.

But I think there is probably more truth in his stories than in what we hear from the talking heads on TV.

[Renew Deal]

6. Some of his stories have been proven true.

I don't think there was a question prior to a few months ago.

[CJCRANE]

7. Something to do with an Iraqi village? I saw comments about one of his recent stories being untrue

but I don't know the specific details of the story (and obviously haven't read it).

[leveymg]

8. The JCS also pushed back on Bushco's plans to expand the war into Iran. The MSM ignored that too

The spirit of Gen. Smedley "War is a racket" Butler is still alive. But, that doesn't fit into the normal mass media narrative about the nature of US government and US foreign policy.

See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/8/344522/-