The Laura Poitras-Mark Obenhaus documentary “Cover Up” (2025) features the work of renown investigative reporter Sy Hersh. Boy, could we use him now. Hersh is a legend. His work exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up, Watergate, secret bombings of Cambodia, CIA domestic spying, Abu Ghraib torture, and other horrifying betrayals of the public trust earned him a Pulitzer Prize and countless other awards. Let’s put it this way. You did not want to be on the receiving end of a phone call from Sy Hersh back in those days. He was tenacious. He was indefatigable. He spoke truth to power. As such, bad actors in high places doing bad things often paid the price. And yes, no doubt, he made some mistakes, too. Hersh’s heyday was proximate to 1975, the year highlighted in Morgan Neville’s documentary “Breakdown: 1975” (2025). One can argue that 1975 ranks very high with 1968, 1979, and 2001 among the worst years in U.S. history. After all, the unforgivable war in Vietnam, the Nixon-Kis...
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