Cover-Up review: Outstanding portrait of Seymour Hersh’s half-century of investigative journalism

Cover-Up review: Outstanding portrait of Seymour Hersh’s half-century of investigative journalism

Without journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiers

Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’: Seymour Hersh and the Architecture of Silence

In the vast, shifting landscape of American political discourse, where the ephemeral nature of digital news often erodes the bedrock of historical memory, the arrival of the new documentary Cover-Up feels less like a cinematic premiere and more like a seismic intervention. Directed by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras and the veteran producer Mark Obenhaus, this sprawling, meticulous, and deeply unnerving film serves as a forensi…