[kaffee]

Essential context: Seymour Hersh is a big deal.

"Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh

[timeon]

That attempt to downplay Skripal poisoning left bad taste.

[drewcoo]

If "downplay" means question the official story, then actual journalism must all have a bitter taste.

Better to stick to overt propaganda. Luckily that's all of mass media today. Yum!