Seymour Hersh: Close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing … be an outsider.

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Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he on the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.