NEW YORK, February 15. /TASS/. US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who last week published a summary of his inquiry about the US being responsible for the explosions on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, has accused the leading US media of glossing over his findings. Hersh made the statement on Wednesday on his page on the Sudstack platform.
Hersh recalled that in the 1970s he worked for The New York Times, and his articles and materials were regularly cited in The Washington Post.
This time "neither of them wrote a word about my pipeline story, they didn't even mention its denial by White House," Hersh said.
The journalist added that this was not the first time something like this has happened in his career. His story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969 had the same fate.
"There is a pattern to the response by the mainstream media. It dates back to my breakthrough story: the My Lai massacre revelation. That story was published in five installments, over five weeks in 1969, by the underground media group Dispatch News. I had tried to get the two most important magazines in America, Life and Look, to publish the story, with no success," Hersh recalls.
On February 8, Hersh, an investigative reporter, cited a source saying that the bombs that eventually exploded under the Russian gas pipelines were planted in June 2022 under the cover of the Baltops exercise by US Navy divers with the support of Norwegian specialists. According to Hersh, the decision to conduct the operation was made personally by US President Joe Biden after nine months of discussions with his administration’s national security officials. The chief of the National Security Council’s press service Adrienne Watson, in response to a question from TASS, dismissed Hersh’s version of the events as "utterly false and complete fiction.".