"I don't think I could do now what I did 30, 40, 50 years ago, says the now 88-year-old. The outlets aren't there. The money's not there. So I don't know where we all are right now."
"Laura, the director, would ask me, And how did you feel?' That's not a guy's question"
"His anger was mostly directed at me' Oscar-winning documentary-maker Laura Poitras. Photograph"
Seymour Hersh walked through his Georgetown neighborhood and found almost no places selling newspapers, illustrating the decline of physical news distribution. Hersh was born in 1937 and built a career at major outlets, breaking major investigative stories including the My Lai massacre and Abu Ghraib prison abuses. He reports that current outlets and funding for deep investigative work are lacking, making past methods difficult to replicate today. A film revisits key episodes of his reporting, highlights his impactful exposes, and acknowledges contentious moments tied to reliance on unnamed sources and occasional missteps.
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