While it was exciting to see legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in person Friday evening, I regretfully have to say that like many writers, Hersh is better at the written word than the spoken. Or perhaps I am better at reading than listening.
Hersh spoke to an overflow crowd at the University of Oregon’s Portland campus. The main lecture room was filled to capacity. We who constituted overflow sat in two separate rooms with large video screens.
For forty-plus years, Hersh has investigated political and military issues. He gained worldwide recognition – and a Pulitzer Prize– in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, and its ensuing cover-up. He has also written about Gulf War Syndrome, the treatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, and controversial CIA projects. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
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Journalist Seymour Hersh has investigated many of the important political and military issues of the last forty-plus years. This week he will be in Eugene and Portland discussing the efficacy of torture.
The son of immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland, Hersh began his journalism career in 1959 as a police reporter in Chicago. He later worked in South Dakota, then Washington, DC. There he met and befriended the famous investigative journalist I.F. Stone.
Hersh gained worldwide recognition – and a Pulitzer Prize – in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, and its ensuing cover-up. In 1972, Hersh was hired as a reporter for the Washington Bureau of The New York Times, where he worked off and on during the 1970s.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Words Worth Paying For? Publishing in the Age of Electronic Readers (UO Portland, White Stag Block-70 NW Couch St., @6:00pm): Electronic book devices such as Amazon’s Kindle 
and Sony E-reader are part of a new wave in digital publishing–one that’s drawing attention in the media and creating an uncertain world for publishers, authors, journalists, librarians and booksellers. How do digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers?
A panel including: Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love; Dennis Stovall, director of publishing and publisher of Ooligan Press at PSU; and Vailey Oehlke, director of Multnomah County Libraries. will discuss what it all means, and where we might be heading. We’ll share conversation, food, and drink as part of a lively evening hosted by the UO Portland and partners in the White Stag Block. All are welcome to this free, public event.
Other Book Events Today:
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Mark this down on your calendars as a must attend event. Monday, November 16th at 6:00pm Al Stavitsky, Portland Director of U of O’s School of Journalism and Communication, will moderate a discussion on how “digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers.” A panel full of heavy-hitters includes: Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love; Dennis Stovall, director of publishing and publisher of Ooligan Press at PSU; and Vailey Oehlke, director of Multnomah County Libraries.
Here is the teaser from U of O:
Electronic book devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony E-reader are part of a new wave in digital publishing–one that’s drawing attention in the media and creating an uncertain world for publishers, authors, journalists, librarians and booksellers. How do digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers?
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While it was exciting to see legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in person Friday evening, I regretfully have to say that like many writers, Hersh is better at the written word than the spoken. Or perhaps I am better at reading than listening.
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