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Seymour Hersh: Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil War"
Seymour Hersh: Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil
War"
We spend the hour with Pulitzer prize-winning investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh won the Pulitzer prize for
exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Last year, he broke
the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. He is author of the
book "Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib."
We hear an address he delivered at an event sponsored by the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign entitled "Can
Freedom of the Press Survive Media Consolidation?" And
he joins us in the studio to talk about the resistance in
Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi, the state of the media and much more.
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We are broadcasting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
from the studios of PBS and NPR station WILL.
Urbana is a hub of independent media activity. The local
Independent Media Center here is one of the most active in
the country and has just bought the Post office. In a few
weeks, the low-power FM station - WRFU Radio Free Urbana -
will begin broadcasting. And the city is working on offering
free wireless internet broadband access. Meanwhile, community
radio station WEFT is going strong as is public access TV
Channel 6.
This week, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
is hosting a conference focusing on the state of the media
in this country. Entitled "Can Freedom of the Press Survive
Media Consolidation?" the conference is the first of
its kind to be sponsored by the Illinois Initiative for Media
Policy Research, established last fall by the College of Communications
to study media policy issues.
Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
of The New Yorker magazine delivered the keynote address last
night. Hersh won the Pulitzer prize for exposing the My Lai
massacre in Vietnam. Last year, he broke the Abu Ghraib prisoner
abuse scandal. He is author of "Chain of Command: From
9/11 to Abu Ghraib." This is an excerpt of what he had
to say last night.
- Seymour Hersh, speaking at the University of Illinois
conference "Can Freedom of the Press Survive Media
Consolidation?" on May 10, 2005.
- Seymour Hersh, live in studio.
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