{"id":234498,"date":"2023-05-08T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=234498"},"modified":"2023-05-03T06:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:41:48","slug":"how-incredibly-sad-u-s-news-media-has-become-w-seymour-hersh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/how-incredibly-sad-u-s-news-media-has-become-w-seymour-hersh\/","title":{"rendered":"How Incredibly Sad U.S. News Media Has Become \u2013 w\/ Seymour Hersh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>28 Apr 2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">During 50+ years as an investigative journalist and frequently award winning reporter Seymour Hersh says he has personally witnessed the steady decline of the US press. Now the collapse is nearly complete, he says, and papers like the <em>New York Times <\/em>and <em>Washington Post<\/em> are shells of their former selves that he wouldn\u2019t even approach with a major scoop. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\">Guest host Aaron Mat\u00e9 and Kurt Metzger talk to Hersh about how reporters now often prioritize being on TV and podcasts than doing actual reporting.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Incredibly Sad U.S. News Media Has Become \u2013 w\/ Seymour Hersh\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RGRDwbrjR28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>Aaron Mat\u00e9 is a journalist with<\/em> The Grayzone, <em>where he hosts<\/em> \u201cPushback.\u201d<\/strong> <em>He is also a contributor to<\/em> Real Clear Investigations <em>and the temporary co-host of<\/em> \u201cUseful Idiots.\u201d <em>In 2019, Mat\u00e9 won the\u00a0Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media for Russiagate coverage in<\/em> The Nation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Seymour M. Hersh\u2019s investigative journalism and publishing awards include one Pulitzer Prize<\/strong>, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Hersh won a National Magazine Award for Public Interest for his 2003 articles <\/em>\u201cLunch with the Chairman,\u201d \u201cSelective Intelligence,\u201d <em>and<\/em> \u201cThe Stovepipe.\u201d<em> In 2004 he exposed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in a series of pieces; in 2005, he again received a National Magazine Award for Public Interest, an Overseas Press Club award, the National Press Foundation\u2019s Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism award, and his fifth George Polk Award, making him that award\u2019s most honored laureate. He lives in Washington DC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Apr 2023 &#8211; Guest host Aaron Mat\u00e9 and Kurt Metzger talk to Hersh about how reporters now often prioritize being on TV and podcasts than doing actual reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2314,1138,1748,1678,2881,1855,2462,2571,3009,1365],"class_list":["post-234498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-corporate-media","tag-fake-news","tag-fake-report","tag-investigative-journalism","tag-journalistic-ethics","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-war-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234502,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234498\/revisions\/234502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}