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It dates back to my breakthrough story: the My Lai massacre revelation... Editors... wanted nothing to do with a story about a massacre committed by American soldiers.

— Seymour Hersh

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I want the American people to stop believing everything they hear and to ask more questions, to become more skeptical.

In the immediate aftermath of the pipeline bombing, the American media treated it like an unsolved mystery.

The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple.

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media, The Guardian (2013)

I don’t think that Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers.

There is a pattern to the response by the mainstream media.

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