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UO Channel — Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh discusses journalism in the US in the atmosphere of a declining economy and the growing popularity of blogs and other unconventional mediums as news sources. According to Hersh, the internet has provided new opportunities for journalists to get more information to the public faster, but also diluted the quality of professional reporting standards. As an example Hersh points out the skewed and unprofessional coverage of the post-election crisis in Iran last June provided by the Huffington Post which flooded readers with an abundance of alarmist reports, many of which were from unverifiable sources. Near the end of this 30 minute interview Hersh also touches on Afghanistan and Iraq.
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