WBUR: 'Cover-Up': How one investigative journalist uncovered lies, corruption and abuse of power
'Cover-Up': How one investigative journalist uncovered lies, corruption and abuse of power BY Scott Tong and Julia Corcoran January 06, 2026 Journalist Seymour Hersh in "Cover-Up." (Courtesy of Netflix) Seymour Hersh , a Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative journalist, uncovered the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, the CIA spying on American college students, torture by the CIA and U.S. military at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and more stories officials tried to cover up. The new Netflix documentary "Cover-Up," directed by Mark Obenhaus and Laura Poitras , looks back at Hersh’s career, and it was a long time in the making. About 20 years ago, when Poitras returned from making a film in Iraq during the war, she met with Hersh in hopes of making a film about him and his work. “It was motivated by both respect for size, body of work,” Poitras said, “and a deep concern of the state of investigative journalism in this country.” But Hersh turned ...