“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary and career retrospective of the iconic journalist, Cover-up. At 88 years old, Hersh has not lost a milligram of moxie, and for the most part is content to walk one of his peers through his highs and lows - both Poitras and Hersh have won a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk award over their careers. From the back half of the twentieth century in Vietnam to the front half of the twenty-first century of Russia new war. Poitras, a chronicler of whistle-blowers from Risk’s morally murky web-nerd Jullian Assange, to Citizen...
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