...openly criticize Israel, but I have Jewish friends going back more than 30 years who are in complete denial about Israel's active, leading role in pushing the US into the Iraq/Afghan invasions, neocons, AIPAC, now the Iran deal, the Syrian war--now, it's not JUST Israel's...
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...but he's also done some great work as a mouthpiece for people in the US Mil. who absolutely despise the CIA (or at least big parts of it ). It's a balancing act, and yeah: I'm sure he knows he gets used. So it goes, tho. Hersh's facts are always reliable, and trustworthy.
1) Hersh has the journalistic style--academic, prosaic--which monotonously strings together "facts" spewed by anonymous sources that share one voice. This gives the impression of truth, but it's a stylistic trick. Does he have all the facts?
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Yeah, I agree: the US suffers from an "expert crisis" that it inherited from the UK, a country which refined and rareified the use of propaganda back in the early 1600s. "The impression of Truth" (please pardon if i gave it a tweak): this is a great question. When does "Truth"..
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..stop being "truth" and become "propaganda." That's a hard question to answer.
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2) If, as you admit, he cultivated CIA sources and is used by CIA, then what facts doesn't Hersh have? Facts are useful and critically important but a journalist like Hersh uses facts to construct merely the appearance of truth.
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>>>2) If, as you admit, he cultivated CIA sources and is used by CIA, then what facts doesn't Hersh have? I think I specifically addressed this, no? I said: NOBODY, absolutely NOBODY has **ALL** the facts. This is a fundamental problem with human being, no?
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