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As the Trump regime swings a wrecking ball at the news media, codirectors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus have created a master class in investigative reporting. Their new documentary Cover-Up, which premieres on Netflix on December 26, chronicles the earth-shaking reportage by eighty-eight-year-old Seymour Hersh, who began his journalistic career as a humble copyboy at […]
As the Trump regime swings a wrecking ball at the news media, codirectors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus have created a master class in investigative reporting. Their new documentary Cover-Up, which premieres on Netflix on December 26, chronicles the earth-shaking reportage by eighty-eight-year-old Seymour Hersh, who began his journalistic career as a humble copyboy at […]
Cover-Up Follows Seymour Hersh’s Life Uncovering Secrets
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Netflix documentary Cover-Up follows the life and work of legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Cover...
The artificial intelligence craze likely just delivered more industry-wide price hikes on household electronics. After accepting billions in taxpayer subsidies, the technology company Micron is shutting down its generic line of consumer-facing chip products to instead focus exclusively on its megacorporation AI customers. The move is expected to drastically limit market competition and raise prices […]
There’s a famous scene in the 1974 film Chinatown where protagonist Jake Gittes confronts the film’s puppet master villain, Noah Cross, the wealthy tycoon responsible for a greed-driven water shortage in the San Fernando Valley, and who — spoiler — raped and impregnated his own teenage daughter. “How much better can you eat? What could […]
Last week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a GOP-backed effort to repeal campaign finance limits on how much money parties can redirect to individual candidates. This case could expand the court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which overturned generations of anti-corruption campaign finance regulation and opened the floodgates of corporate and billionaire political giving. The Citizens United decision still kept […]
