Here's the review I ssent to DB Review today.
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From: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 2:51 PM
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Subject: Reporter: a memoir DB91349
Reporter: a memoir DB91349
Hersh, Seymour M. Reading time: 13 hours, 55 minutes.
Read by Arthur Morey.
Journalism and the Media
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Dark Side of Camelot (DB 45157) and
Chain of Command (DB 59238) recounts his experiences in the journalism
industry and major stories he has covered, including the Vietnam War
massacre at My Lai and horrors committed at Abu Ghraib prison. Unrated.
Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Download Reporter: a memoir
I believe that when I was reading this book, which I got from Bookshare
immediately upon its release, I began talking about it on this list, even
though the book wasn't on BARD. That's because Seymour Hersh is one of the
journalists who has been well known and respected for as long as I've been
paying attention to journalism. The book is about being a journalist. It
focuses on the profession and not on the personal details of Hersh's life.
It is treuly representative of what Seymour Hersh has always been about and
what he is about is getting the truth about what has been happening, and
communicating what he has discovered, to his readers. Back when mainstream
media respected journalism, there was always a newspaper or magazine in the
US that would publish his stories. It wasn't always easy. Hersh had to
cultivate and protect his sources. He had to omit some facts if including
them would prevent the important story from being told. This book describes
some of what he did and how he did it. But the mainstream media has changed.
You can't read Hersh's stories in American journalistic enterprises today.
You have to read them in British or German publications. Luckily, the
stories do appear on the internet and his books are still available here.
His latest book, the one before this one, , The Killing of Osama Bin Laden,
is on Bookshare. And even though his stories are too truthful to be
published here, he is well known and beloved by his colleagues, the
investigative reporters who follow in his footsteps. He's been interviewed
and has given talks all over the place recently, because of this book. One
of the recent episodes of Intercepted, the podcast of The Intercept, is a
recording of an evening honoring him, during which he gave a talk. I think
there's also a short interview with him on Start making Sense, which is the
podcast of The Nation magazine. Seymour Hersh is 81 years old, the same age
as I, but in much better shape. I hope he stays in good shape and lives to
100.
Miriam