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"... At another session, Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh packed the main conference hall with a talk on investigative journalism and lauded Arab media for reporting on issues neglected (intentionally or otherwise) by U.S. print and broadcast outlets.
"The [American] press turned cheerleaders and did not challenge the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] story," he said of former President George W. Bush's war on Iraq. "Bush helped me in my career and I hope [US President Barack] Obama doesn't."
But he cautioned that Obama was falling in the same trap as Bush and that nothing, except the leadership, had changed with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Hersh praised Dubai for being at the cutting edge and urged Arab journalists to push for good governance but said an investigative journalist was like a dead rat brought to a party.
"Nobody likes us, but if you don't do what you do, you can't change things," he said, adding that the Internet had changed the face of journalism.
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