Topic: Seymour Hersh

New media, but what about old standards?

IN 2006, the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was informed that the CIA was torturing suspected terrorists with fire ants. As veteran newspapermen Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel observe in Blur, journalistic integrity doesn't get better than that, yet in the sensationalist ...

Book Publishing

Janet Dailey, author of 93 romance novels that had sold 200 million copies in 98 countries and 19 languages, shocked her fans in August when she admitted to having plagiarized the work of Nora Roberts, also a best-selling romance writer. When confronted ...
During 2008 I read the first two volumes of Robert Caro's four volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. On the Kennedy years, I read The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh. One of the books I ...

Nuclear Mutiny in Pakistan?

One word haunts Seymour Hersh's new investigative piece about the potentially shaky security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal: "mutiny. " As Hersh writes, "the Taliban overrunning Islamabad is not the only, or even the greatest, concern. " Pakistan is, after all, a country ...

US, Pakistan negotiate nuke security deal: report

The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.The journalist wrote that during meetings with ...

US, Pakistan negotiate deal on nuke security: report

The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.The journalist wrote that during meetings with ...

High heels

Round here, like John McCain we live on the Straight Talk Express. Just as there is something very disturbing about seeing a woman whose waist is half the circumference of her hips (as anyone who's seen a photo of Dita von ...

The man who knows too much

Every so often, a famous actor or producer will contact Seymour Hersh, wanting to make a movie about his most famous story: By the time I look at Hersh again - the full panorama takes a moment or two - he is silently examining ...
Guests for the Sunday TV News ShowsGuest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:___ABC's "This Week" _ Former President Bill Clinton; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus.___CBS' "Face the Nation" _ New Mexico Gov ...

A new enemy, the Shia

Post 9/11, the world was stupefied to discover that the Afghan ? Twenty years after its blindness helped create al-Qaida, has the United States learned its lesson? The answer, if we are to believe the celebrated American journalist Seymour Hersh, is no ...