Running for Your Life: Simply “Reporter”

When it comes to making a difference, try this:

Being a reporter.

Not a journalist, not a pundit, not someone who would distinguish oneself through ambition to establish some home truth that separates and divides, builds yet another data and opinion silo that forces the genuflection of the media.

Rather, trust the path followed by Seymour Hersh in his simply titled book, “Reporter.”

I’ve been in a news business awhile. Since 1979, the first four years as a reporter, the balance as an editor.

But there’d be no news without reporters. And rarely is there a book about one dedicated to getting the story with the tenacity of a junk yard dog.

“Sy” Hersh shows the way in this book. Consider this essential reading.

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