Saturday, October 25, 2008

Heroic journalist profiled in UK's Guardian


He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

It's no shock that some government officials describe Illinois native and veteran journalist Seymour Hersh as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."

Check out Rachel Cooke's fine snapshsot of Hersh here --