Seymour Hersh's name is well-known in the world of journalism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, who exposed the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has become a legendary figure for some. In recent years, Hersh…
Fifty years after his expose of the massacre in Vietnam, the veteran US reporter digs the dirt on a new target: himself Within minutes of meeting Seymour Hersh you understand why he is so good at getting people to confide in him. His lack of pretension is …
From the infamous My Lai massacre in Southeast Asia to Watergate. From Jack Kennedy's administration to the demise of Osama bin Laden. Seymour M. Hersh has uncompromisingly witnessed these and other signal occurrences. From the infamous My Lai …
ANALYSIS/OPINION: If Seymour Hersh received a report card in kindergarten, I’d be willing to bet that he flunked “plays well with other children.” He is by his own admission egotistical, arrogant and not a team player. He has left almost every …
The reporter who exposed the My Lai massacre and the CIA’s illegal domestic spying in the 1970s continues to be a rebel outsider Reporter: A Memoir By Seymour M. Hersh, Alfred A. Knopf, 355 pages, $27.95 “Give me a break!” were the first words Lieutenant …
Seymour Hersh's new memoir, Reporter: A Memoir, occasionally notes the failure of the exposure of wrong-doing to result in accountability or policy reforms. That's the closest the book generally comes to touching on any motivation behind Hersh…
Ten years ago, not long before the election that put Barack Obama in the White House, I went to Washington to interview Seymour Hersh, the reporter who, in 1969, single-handedly uncovered the atrocities that had been committed by an American platoon in My …
Ten years ago, not long before the election that put Barack Obama in the White House, I went to Washington to interview Seymour Hersh, the reporter who, in 1969, single-handedly uncovered the atrocities that had been committed by an American platoon in My …
Within minutes of meeting Seymour Hersh you understand why he is so good at getting people to confide in him. His lack of pretension is disarming. He is direct, he asks questions, he listens. He hits you with a volley of jokes and anecdotes punctuated by …
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