"Hersh broke out big time in 1969 when he exposed the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre and its cover-up in a cable filed through Dispatch News Service, which was picked up by more than 30 newspapers. It earned him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. His career spans stints at the A.P., The New York Times (where he filed 40 stories on Watergate), The New Yorker (where he broke the horrors of Abu Ghraib), freelance reporting and book-writing, and current filings on Substack."
"The way I put it, at a certain point, even with somebody as bright and civilized as [New Yorker editor David] Remnick, this guy comes in every other year and drops a dead rat full of lice on his desk and said, 'That's the story I want to do. It's going to take months and cost you a lot of money. And then if you do get it, you're going to go broke with lawsuits.'"
Laura Poitras admired Seymour Hersh and pursued a film project that profiles his 50-year investigative career while exposing failures of the United States and its media. Hersh broke out in 1969 by exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. His career includes work at the A.P., The New York Times, The New Yorker, freelance reporting, books, and current Substack filings, with major scoops on Watergate and Abu Ghraib. After lengthy persuasion, Hersh agreed to appear in Poitras's documentary Cover-Up, which will be released on Netflix; he remains a combative, influential figure at age 88.
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