Sy Hersh is one of the most accomplished and important journalists of his generation.
Someone who works for "Business Insider," @miajankowicz, has never broken a story of note in her life.
This is how she and that site describes Hersh's report on the US blowing up Nord Stream:
Who gives a shit if a news report is a "gift to Putin"? What a dumb and childish mindset. The only question an actual journalist asks: is this story true? Propagandists are concerned with "who does this story help or hurt?"
As for Hersh's expulsion from corporate journalism:
Oh, Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre and many of the abuses of Abu Ghraib? Is that all? Granted, it can't match the journalistic giants of Business Insider, but who among us can?
And yes, he's now "discredited" because some US-Government-funded propaganda outlet attacked him.
"The My Lai Revelations Are a Gift to the Viet Cong" -- today's media in 1972 when Sy Hersh did this:
Good article on how the invasion of Iraq wasn't a "blunder" but a grave crime.
And yet - other than Judy Miller - none of the leading architects and advocates of it paid any price. To the contrary, they rose to the top of media and politics, beginning with the current President.
I started writing about politics in 2005 because neocons and establishment leaders of both parties had ushered in a state of lawlessness and authoritarianism: mass spying, unlimited presidential power, etc.
18 years later, the leaders who did that are now media icons and heroes.
There is nothing Trump did that is even in the same universe as moral evils as the invasion of Iraq and the extreme abuses of the "War on Terror."
A key purpose Trump served was to absolve US elites of their far war sins by elevating him as Supreme Evil
Recent polls from Gallup and Pew found 20-25% of Americans already know Rumble. It's surely higher now with its ongoing national TV advertising blitz -- making clear it's a way of liberating oneself from the censorship and tyranny of Big Tech/YouTube:
Each night we refer to Rumble as "the free speech alternative to YouTube."
Whenever a new platform emerges to challenge the hegemony of Big Tech and corporate media (eg Substack), they use the same false attack: it's a far-right site. The lie won't work
Nothing has mainstreamed Nazi insignia and Nazi iconography more than the people who worship Azov, a group that the Western press spent a full decade warning was the most dominant in Ukraine and was fully committed to a neo-Nazi ideology.
Today's NYT article on Fetterman makes clear his incapacities and health challenges are far graver than were known.
Nothing but the best of wishes to Fetterman and his recovery, but it's urgent to recall how aggressively and deliberately the media lied about this to elect him:
Right before the election, an NBC reporter, @DashaBurns, did her most basic job by honestly reporting Fetterman seemed incapable of speaking and understanding her.
She was mauled by liars like @karaswisher who, eager to elect Dems, attacked the reporter.
At some point, when the corporate media gets caught lying enough times right before elections, in every case to protect Dem candidates - NY Post's reporting on Joe Biden is "Russian Disinformation" (CIA/CNN/NBC) - it has to become some kind of crisis or at least revelatory event.
Western security agencies directed their media corporations to tell their populations that Russia blew up its own pipeline. Those media outlets obeyed, as always.
And now Victoria Nuland just all but openly boasts with Ted Cruz about how proud they are that they destroyed it:
Hersh is easily one of the 2 or 3 most accomplished and important journalists of his generation. Yet, now, he's basically kicked out of journalism. The more big stories you break, the more failed corporate journalists hate you.
The claim is that Hersh got stories wrong and spread conspiracies.
But we know that's not barred in journalism. As long as you spread false conspiracy theories that *serve* the US Security State -- Iraq WMD, Iraq/Al-Qeada alliance, Russiagate bullshit - your career thrives.