NY’s Hersh: ‘Brutal, dishonest wars are good for me’

This week the New Yorker’s National Magazine Award-nominated Seymour Hersh gave an amusing interview with the Center for American Progress’s new college outreach arm. In it, he describes his reporting style, his reactions to Memogate, My Lai, and Abu Ghraib and he explains his sources:

I began to know people who became generals–and once you know 3 and 4-star generals, you meet the next generation and then you just get to know people. Over the years, I’ve been lucky. I can do more reporting because I can call people who will talk to me. So, I guess nasty, brutal, dishonest wars are good for me professionally.

Somehow we don’t think that last line will be in his acceptance speech at the ellies.

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