Mainstream media consensus is stagnant and one-sided

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says there are 50 versions of truth and your correspondent Barry Kenyon agrees with him. Why then do we get only one version in The Nation’s international pages? The Opinion section offers a greater variety, but it too is often dominated by reprints from the likes of the Washington Post or Bloomberg.
The point is not whether Seymour Hersh is right and syndicated media is wrong, but that there’s a lot more to international news coverage than the one-sided view that appears in The Nation. We’ve seen first-hand the shortcomings in coverage of Thailand’s political conflict by big media names. Why should they be any better on Syria, Libya or any other hot issue?
A study by an MIT professor showed that rockets used in a Syrian gas attack could not have come from government-held positions, so the New York Times published a sort of retraction of its previous claims. That it’s not a “slam dunk” verdict regarding Assad’s responsibility also appears in sources other than Hersh. A White House spokesman once stated that the administration lacked “irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence” too. All of that is on Wikipedia, but not in our newspaper.
Stan G
Bangkok