Fred Kaplan has a new article on the controversy over at Abu Ghraib
here.
One comment he makes...
Third, Seymour Hersh seems to be on his hottest roll as an investigative reporter in 30 years, and the editors of every major U.S. daily newspaper aren't going to stand for it. "We're having our lunch handed to us by a weekly magazine!" one can imagine them shouting in their morning meetings. Scoops and counterscoops will be the order of the day.
Is the reporting of Sy Hersh finally waking up the news media? Before they were afraid of saying something bad about the President for fear being branded as part of the SCLM. But is the risk of losing the scoop overriding their survival instincts?
Has Sy Hersh's investigation of Abu Ghraib giving the media back it's backbone?