The Tishman Auditorium of the New School was packed Wednesday night to hear investigative journalist Seymour Hersh begin a social research conference on “Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy”. Undergraduate students and elderly folks alike sat in attendance, waiting to hear Hersh’s words of wisdom. Hersh spoke coolly and candidly, breezing through a wide variety of topics and sprinkling humor throughout as he saw fit. Hersh focused on exposing government secrets and media cover-ups. He seemed focused on the fact that the media doesn’t push hard enough to get to the real story, “If you can’t cross the line too much, you don’t get the access.”
Hersh mainly focused on the ongoing war. “Perhaps there is some method to the madness of continuing the war. Wars are not to be run operationally.” Hersh said of the war in Iraq. He continued “The military does play games with the President, as much as they can… More troops are gonna go in. Most of our operations are compromised. There’s concern that military officer assassinations are going on.”
He mentioned the existence of secret prisons, presumably tied to prisoners of war, “I’m not a charity so I’m not gonna give away where they are, but they are places you would not believe.”
Hersh spanned a variety of other topics, mentioning September 11th, “We still don’t know much about 9/11, if anybody cares.”
The casual tone that Hersh delivered these messages in seemed to dull their impact. His message seemed conflicted between informing the everyday man and scolding journalists for not delving deep enough into a story. In any case the information was eye opening and should urge the public to look beyond what airs on a typical newscast.
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