Re: Why Eric Umansky doutbs Hersh on nukes
Stuart Elliott wrote:
A week ago Eric Umansky blogged “Why I don’t trust Hersh’s latest The Boston Phoenix Mark Jurkowitz calls for Sy Hersh to add some needed context to his big recent report that the White House is considering using tactical nukes against Teheran. I’ll second that.
Look people, Hersh’s article got through the New Yorker’s fact-checkers, editors, and lawyers. Why some blogger pulling on his pud has any credibility is beyond me.
Doug
April 20th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Hersh has been wrong plenty of times before and plenty of times while in the NYer. Here’s one example:
http://www.slate.com/?id=2058474
As for the NYers vaunted fact-checking process–that’s easy: Look closely at Hersh’s piece and the facts might all be right–no doubt a “former Pentagon official” did assert the White House is considering using tactical nukes–it’s his larger assertions that are at issue. And about those, I don’t think he’s provably wrong. I don’t just think we know whether he’s right.
P.S. For better or worse, I ain’t just a blogger. I write for the big evil corporate media.