THE HERSH-O-METER: Slate's Jack Shafer has a
snarky piece on Seymour Hersh, the ace investigative reporter for
The New Yorker who has been spectacularly wrong about a great many things since Sept. 11. In fact, you could use Hersh's reporting as a kind of negative gauge of the truth:
Given this extraordinary track record, any thumbs-down flashed by Hersh must be interpreted as a leading indicator that the precise opposite is about to happen.
Give it a look.