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Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh (HarperCollins, 370 pp., $25.95)
THIS side of Dan Rather, no one has more cause for concern about fallout from CBS's scandalous document hoax than Seymour Hersh. For no journalist has benefited more from the decades-old jerry-rigged system of American news reporting now being razed before our eyes.
It was a cozy arrangement. A precious few titans--called the "mainstream" media, though there was little mainstream about them--anointed themselves arbiters of the "objective" and the "responsible." Objective was a veneer of just-the-facts-ma'am rigor, hiding a supernumerary lens implacably programmed to align selected facts with certain preordained "truths": American strength bad, European piety good, individual initiative dangerous, government social activism desirable, and so on. Responsible, in turn, was the process of bolstering this "objectivity" with analysis from dependable sources, trusted to go along with the program and transformed into superstar pundits for doing so.
Only through such an arrangement could Seymour Hersh have thrived. In lionizing this Pulitzer Prize winner, the "mainstream" has honored itself. How fitting, then, that...
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