Cover-Up

A documentary about the career of journalist Seymour Hersh, who has broken some of the most important political stories in America since the late 1960s. Seymour Hersh, or “Sy” Hersh to his friends, is an investigative journalist active since 1959—starting in local Chicago newspapers, then going to UPI, and finally The New York Times, where he became famous after breaking the story of the My Lai massacre in 1969. He since became a freelancer and frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine. Hersh took on some of the toughest news items involving U.S. government crimes, and particularly attempts to conceal those…