'Reporter' offers a captivating account of an entire era of journalism
“There are two kinds of news reporter memoirs,” a tart old Boston-daily editor once quipped, “untrue and unpublished.”
The cynicism is connected to an adage-cum-warning that's as old as professional journalism itself, that the journalist is never the story. The story is the real point; the journalist is just the messenger – at least, this has been the standard model.
But in his latest book, , the semi-legendary Seymour Hersh breaks with the model in ways that are alternately touching, fascinating, and infuriating
