let me cut to the quick.
i have not crowned anybody anything.
And let me cut back to the quick. You've made up your mind without evidence about Hersh. Or this particular incident. You may turn out to be right; and you may be wrong. But right now, given what we all know, you don't know.
I repeat my earlier post. If one had to choose between the occupation of Hersh (journalist) and his track record of reliability and that of Shuger (columnist and editor, nothing wrong with either of these occupations, just that neither has to get it "right") and the lack of a track record from Shuger, you go with Hersh.
And since you brought up Tailwind in that earlier post and since neither of us "really knows" what transpired either in the event or in the reporting, we don't know whether it was "made up" or something else happened. My own take, for what it's worth, is that something happened which the folks at CNN who put the story together ran across. I don't think producers, at that level, make up out of whole cloth. I think they had a story that made sense but three things kept it off the air. First, someone got to some of their sources to get them to recant. Second, there were some minor glitches in the production of the story, which became the focus of attacks. And, third, the top level executives got cold feet. Some set of folk at their level got to them and without a foolproof story (sort of on the order of what Hersh did with My Lai), they backed off.
But that's just mho.
John |
