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He is perhaps best known for covering the [[My Lai]] incident during the [[Vietnam]] war as well as the US prisoner abuse at [[Abu Ghraib]] in [[Iraq]]. | He is perhaps best known for covering the [[My Lai]] incident during the [[Vietnam]] war as well as the US prisoner abuse at [[Abu Ghraib]] in [[Iraq]]. | ||
| − | He has won a Pulitzer prize in addition to various other awards for his work. <ref>http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/18/hersh/index.html</ref> | + | He has won a Pulitzer prize in addition to various other awards for his work.<ref>http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/18/hersh/index.html</ref> |
| − | In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' alleging that [[Barack Obama]] had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of [[Osama Bin Laden]]. <ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Seymour M. Hersh "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," ''London Review of Books,'' volume 37, number 10, 21 May 2015]</ref> | + | In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' alleging that [[Barack Obama]] had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of [[Osama Bin Laden]].<ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Seymour M. Hersh "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," ''London Review of Books,'' volume 37, number 10, 21 May 2015]</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:43, June 27, 2016
Seymour Hersh is an advocacy journalist with a "long history of visceral anti-Americanism, which resonates with the journalistic elite." [1] Hersch is a regular contributor to the liberal magazine the New Yorker.
He is perhaps best known for covering the My Lai incident during the Vietnam war as well as the US prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
He has won a Pulitzer prize in addition to various other awards for his work.[2]
In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the London Review of Books alleging that Barack Obama had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden.[3]
Links
- The Cult of Seymour Hersh - The American Spectator - July/August 2004