Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream
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Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream
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#2It feels rather damning that Hersh didn’t verify some of the easily verifiable claims that his source made.
Why would you not have researchers do some fact checking on the story before publishing it so loudly?
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If you doubt that Abu Ghraib happened, I dunno what to tell you.
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#6For those lacking context, like me:
> Seymour Hersh’s recent Substack post claims to provide a highly detailed account of a covert US operation to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines in order to ensure that Russia would be unable to supply Germany with natural gas through them. All the information in Hersh’s post reportedly comes from a single unnamed source, who appears to have had direct access to every step of the planning and execution of this highly secretive operation.
https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour...
This is an impressively thorough debunking.
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#7It feels rather damning that Hersh didn’t verify some of the easily verifiable claims that his source made. Why would you not have researchers do some fact checking on the story before publishing it so loudly?
If you fact check and you're right, you've wasted your time.
If you fact check and you're wrong, you either can't publish (wasting the time you took for the story) or you publish anyway knowing it's wrong, in which case, it's still a waste of time.
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#8It feels rather damning that Hersh didn’t verify some of the easily verifiable claims that his source made. Why would you not have researchers do some fact checking on the story before publishing it so loudly?
he did do fact checking, with people he had previously worked with at New Yorker
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/seymour...
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He's in "I want corroboration" territory for me. The big scoops - My Lai, Abu Gharaib - were backed up with hard evidence and other organizations confirming the allegations. Stuff like "the US faked Bin Laden's burial and chucked chunks of him into the mountains" have, thus far, not been.
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#10Not sure why anybody took seriously a story an octogenarian wrote on his blog from interviewing a single anonymous source where he got numerous basic facts wrong anyway.