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Vijay Prashad:
So much more could be said about Reporter. One hopes that Hersh will
come back and write another book about matters to which he alludes at
the close of this one. Some of his most important stories in recent
years have been about the allegations of the use of chemical weapons in
Syria. Hersh’s stories, which raised important questions about the
validity of these allegations, had been reported mainly from U.S.
government sources. He does not say enough about these stories. One
would like to know more. One would like, as well, to know why U.S.
publications had refused to run these stories, which eventually ran in
British and German publications. “I will happily permit history to be
the judge of my recent work,” he writes in the final pages. But this is
not enough. Hersh is a good raconteur of the process of his reporting. I
would have liked more of his sense of those stories and his judgment
about how they were squelched and then received.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/23/americas-reporter-the-hersh-method/
Good points. If Vijay ever gets an opportunity to speak to Hersh
personally, I hope he can ask him to explain how he got the curious
notion that it was not a sarin gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun that killed
people but instead a missile that accidentally hit a supply of chlorine
that was used by the dreaded jihadis not for use against Assad's
military but for ritual cleansing of their own dead fighters before
burial, especially since Islam stipulates soap and water for that purpose.
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