Cover-Up: How One Reporter Spent 50 Years Exposing America’s Murder Inc.
January 9, 2026 Cover-Up: How One Reporter Spent 50 Years Exposing America’s Murder Inc. John Kendall Hawkins Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Seymour Hersh, still from Cover-Up (Netflix). Laura Poitras opens her documentary Cover Up with an interrogation of the interrogator. She presses Seymour Hersh on the one subject that has become his greatest vulnerability and his most sacred shield: his sources. Hersh, both irascible and steadfast, continues to maintain his fortress-like demeanor. Despite presenting the filmmaker with tangible documents containing the names of high-ranking “ghosts” inscribed on them, he remains silent for the sake of documentation. “No,” he barks, “I’m not going to talk about my sources.” It is a masterful opening, mirroring the anecdotal beginning of Hersh’s memoir, Reporter . It immediately plunges the viewer into the fundamental tension of modern journalism: the distinction between adversarial sourcing and stenographic access. For...