Seymour Hersh

10, Feb. Verica Rupar's seminar of Great Journalists

"Journalists in Europe are seen as part of the intellectual elites; journalists in US are seen as professionals."

"Seymour Hersh is a man who clashes with people. He is famous for exaggerating things in public speeches. It is Tim Brown, an iconic figure in American journalism, who brought Hersh into NY Times."

"Hersh uses low men, hundreds of obscure people, as sources; while Bob Woodward uses top men, only a few high-status people, for verification. Amir Taheri and David Remnick have written a book Unidentified Sources to raise their questions to and doubts about Hersh's sources."

"Hersh wrote a book, The Dark Side of Camelot, about J.F. Kennedy's dirty deeds. It stirred indignation in the American public."