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Seymour Hersh vs. Judy Miller: The truth about Bin Laden’s death — and the anonymous government sources The New York Times is delighted to print as “truth”

Seymour Hersh vs. Judy Miller: The truth about Bin Laden’s death — and the anonymous government sources The New York Times is delighted to print as “truth”

May 11, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Desperate rush to discredit Osama bin Laden bombshell perfectly sums up the media’s slavish relationship with power Well, well. Another grand American narrative, brimming with the triumphalist heroism of people we put into uniforms, melts like ice cream in the…

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