Seymour Hersh: High confidence means we "don’t know squat”

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh talked about his career, lessons he’s learned, and his new memoir, “Reporter.”

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.8	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:09.5	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.5	My guest today is a legend.
0:14.0	Pulled surprise winning investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch.
0:17.1	Sihirsch is best known for his groundbreaking intelligence
0:19.7	and foreign affairs reporting from the My Lie Massacre
0:22.3	to Abu Gharrib prison in Iraq, if you remember that.
0:25.7	In his new memoir, Reporter.
0:27.8	Hirsch takes a look back at his own career
0:29.8	and reveals some surprising and sometimes unflattering stories
0:32.8	from his time covering street crime, watergate, and the CIA.
0:37.3	Never afraid to ruffles feathers.
0:38.7	He also focuses his eye on his fellow news reporters.
0:41.9	Criticizing news outlets when they quote,
0:43.7	buy into the official story.
0:46.3	Seymour Hirsch, welcome to 1947.
0:48.6	I'd like to be there.
0:50.0	So let me start with your basic philosophy as a reporter,
0:54.3	because what's interesting is I think what's fair to say
0:57.6	and what others have noted, is that you ended up developing
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