Reaction to the Hersh story shows just how far there is to go in teaching media literacy. He has no documents, cites one anonymous source, some of the claims contrast with available public data, and yet tonnes of people are taking it as fact because… they like the conclusion?Reaction to the Hersh story shows just how far there is to go in teaching media literacy. He has no documents, cites one anonymous source, some of the claims contrast with available public data, and yet tonnes of people are taking it as fact because… they like the conclusion?

Not to mention that lot of his claims in the last two decades - which always remarkably have the same baddie - have been debunked by subsequent reports, reporting and evidence.