Seymour Hersh: A reporter's reporter
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Asked what he loved about being a reporter, Seymour Hersh replied, "The same thing you love about it. Are you kidding? Is there anything more fun than being on air with a good story?" In:
Asked what he loved about being a reporter, Seymour Hersh replied, "The same thing you love about it. Are you kidding? Is there anything more fun than being on air with a good story?"
Seymour Hersh is a good story. For six decades, Hersh's reporting has changed public opinion and government policy. The torture that he revealed at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq war was just one scoop in a long run that began with his account of the slaughter of hundreds of civilians by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
The backstory of this towering, sometimes controversial investigative journalist is the subject of "Cover-Up," a documentary by Mark Obenhaus and Laura Poitras, now streaming on Netflix.
Poitras, who won an Oscar for "CitizenFour," her film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, said of Hersh, "He loves people. Even though he can be a little cranky."
Her description of the sometimes volatile Hersh could read like the job requirements for an ideal investigative reporter: Consistently adversarial to power; never seduced into the club; consistently going after the highest powers (the president, for instance) over and over.
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