2. Seymour Hersh’s long piece relies on one anonymous source who is broadly identified and who doesn’t have an institutional agenda.
1. Such comparison is so intellectually lazy as to be insulting:https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/610076746336088064 …
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3. Hersh’s source’s claims are backed up by other sources, anonymous and identified, by evidence and context.
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4. Several claims in Hersh’s piece were corroborated by prior and subsequent reporting carried out by other journalists.
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@thesundaytimes#Snowden piece is all the opposite of what Hersh’s piece was:Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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6. It’s self-serving to the institutions the sources allegedly belong to;
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7. There’s no corroboration from other sources, no contextualization to back it up, no confirmation from other reporting.
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8. On the contrary, one week ago, reported Jason Leopold revealed that a smear campaign was in the works within US/UK governments.
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9. Also, as Greenwald reminded us, none of what’s in the Sunday Times piece is new and have already been debunked;
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10. And the only new information in the piece is a blatant lie (or a gross error, depending on how nice you want to be to the newspaper).
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11. On top of all that, Hersh has a long history of investigative, combative journalism, whereas the Times belongs to Murdoch.
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