The SY Hersh Effect and the Media: Killing the Messenger, Ignoring the Message

The SY Hersh Effect and the Media: Killing the Messenger, Ignoring the Message

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The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message
Absolute crickets. That is the sound in the major mainstream media — both foreign and domestic — following the charges by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that the United States led a covert operation to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022.

The story, released on Hersh’s new Substack last week, unleashed a Twitter war between Hersh’s defenders and detractors, but a simple Google search betrays a dearth of mainstream coverage, with only brief reports by Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, The Times (UK) and the New York Post (a conservative holding of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire). The Washington Times editorial board, a …

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