Re: [Salon] The Sy Hersh Effect



Bremmer heads a consultancy that serves private clients.  Nothing wrong with that but his company is not a news outlet.  His public appearances are informative but are for the purpose of advertising his services. He is often insightful but seldom at odds with the official narrative.

I post from blogs and foreign media, including the media in countries with which we have an adversarial relationship, because they are often the only places that report events that are not reported at all or reported only sketchily in our increasingly conformist mainstream media.  I deliberately select material for posting that either provides essential background for the news or news that is not easily available in the mainstream media.  The stuff I post is often stuff I do not personally agree with but find challenging to the conventional view.

I don't see a need for me to highlight disagreeing perspectives on Hersh's article because the mainstream media, when it doesn't ignore him, only publishes material disparaging him and his record.  Hersh's record, however, speaks for itself.  There is no other living journalist who has broken as many stories that first drew derision from officialdom only to be proven correct.

Best regards,

Chas

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 2:09 PM Edward Hughes <edwhughes@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't understand.  Most media in the world, besides those publicly funded corporations like BBC, RAI and PBC and outside of outlets under authoritarian regimes, are "for-profit."  You post extensively from RT, Sputnik and other Russian government organs whose independence has to be shaded by restrictions imposed by the government they serve. Hersh made his bones (Mai Lai, Abu Ghraib) while working for a "for-profit" organization.  You also publish extensively from Greyzone and Moon Over Alabama that are blogging sites not usually considered part of the "media".  
I would think highlighting disagreeing perspectives on Hersh's important article would be a highly desirable aspect of widening the "Overton Window".
Warm regards,
Edward
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:29 PM Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
Ian Bremmer operates a for-profit company and cannot be considered part of the "media" even if he goes on Youtube.  Still, it's good that he feels he can't ignore the Hersh report even if he disparages it.

Chas

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:57 AM Walter Nicklin via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
Maybe not a "major media blackout," for the Hersch story is at least being addressed,  for example:

https://youtu.be/OUqf-4pSy4c

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 11:33 AM Kelley Vlahos via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
The major media blackout of Sy Hersh's bombshell report and all of the attending questions it has raised, speaks to a much broader, troubling trend of government supplication in the elite news coverage of the Ukraine war today. I write about it for RS, with some good quotes from (ex-CIA) George Beebe, Bob Wright, and the War Nerd podcast guys who were the first to interview Hersh after his story broke last week.

Please read and share if you are so inclined! 

All the best,
Kelley 
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