It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media handles this. In the 70's Seymour Hersh was a hero. Vietnam era My Lai Massacre, Watergate. Lately he has been sort of branded a purveyor of misinformation. It started when he dared criticize Obama over the Syria "chemical attack" debacle. He never changed. He is still the principled journalist he always was.
I suspect the major media outlets ignore it until they can't - like the lab leak hypothesis.
afaict principled journalists tend to stay principled. It seems like a temperament or personality trait more than something induced by circumstance. Although, I'm sure there are exceptions.
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