CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

Well, that applies to many of the authors also, very few of those media or think-tank types go to the areas they write about!

Have I any special insights, probably not, but I did spend a decade working for News Ltd, and continued travelling to those areas after I left News Ltd, so I've seen the perspective from both sides of the media fence, friend and foe.

Fair enough. Going back to the original point, Chris Hedges has indeed been to a lot of the US, studied it well, and I think makes a number of valid points as a result.