Seymour Hersh on US media

"Asked what the solution is Hersh warms to his theme that most editors are pusillanimous and should be fired. "I'll tell you the solution, get rid of 90% of the editors that now exist and start promoting editors that you can't control," he says. I saw it in the New York Times, I see people who get promoted are the ones on the desk who are more amenable to the publisher and what the senior editors want and the trouble makers don't get promoted. Start promoting better people who look you in the eye and say 'I don't care what you say'. Nor does he understand why the Washington Post held back on the Snowden files until it learned the Guardian was about to publish." "I would close down the news bureaus of the networks and let's start all over, tabula rasa." (thanks Amir)