“Things Got Unsurpringly Political in Venice On Friday as Seymour Hersh Talked About the “Existential Crisis” Facing America Right Now. Hersh, A Celebrared American Political Writer and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Features in Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ Lido-Bound Pro. that traces Hersh’s Explosive Career, Including His Work Exposing the 1968”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Hersh, A Celebrared American Political Writer and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Features in Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ Lido-Bound Project Cover-Upthe Out-of-Competition Political That that traces Hersh’s Explosive Career, Including His Works Exposing The 1968 My Lai Massacre Dringing The Vietnam War. “Cover-Up IS BOTH A Portrait of A Releentless Journalist and An Indictment of Institutional Violence, “The Venice Film Festival Said,“ ReveAling a Cycle of Impunity in the Us.
The Conversation Quickly Turned to Our Current Day Politics and in Particular, Donald Trump, at the Film’s Press Conference. Hersh SAID: “There’s Still Integrity in America Right Now But As Somebody Said Recently, We’re In Existential Crisis Right Now. And The President Is a Man Wats to Bere. Belief is that his absolute Sole Mission.
Hersh Continueded: “And I Will Tell You, I DON’T HAV The KIND OF ACCESS TO HIM, But I’M WORKING ON IT…. This a Bad Time for America, And Because of what, Because of Thus. A Bad Time for the World. ”
WHEN Asked if Her Work Could Be Viewed As A Form of Activism in Such A Polarized World, Poitras – Who Worked For The New York Times for a period – said no. “I don’t agree with that statement. I thinknk nonfiction is cinema, i THINK IS ART, AND I PERSONALLY THINK I MAKE Art That’s Political… But I Don’t Consider It To Be Activism. She said: “It’s Just Telling Something Called Truth, WHICH IS A HARD THING TO TELL, PARTICULARLY IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.”
Laura Poitras for Cover-Up in venice. Theo Wargo/Getty Images
Poitras Was Also Asked About Kamala Harris Lozing The Most Recent Presidential Election and What’s Happened to the Democratic Party Since. “I Really Feel Like The United States Has Been A Continuous Problem [with] Both Political Parties That Get Inherited…. That leads to the moment that we’re in now. And a Lot of It Has to with the Failure of Journalism and the Lack of Adversarial Journalism That’s Asking Hard Questions – One of the Things of Themes of this Film. These Kind of Atrocites Are Committed, They’re Forgotten, and No One’s Held Accountable, and Thus they happen again and thus we are any were today. ”
Hersh Concurred. “IT’s A Terrible Problem, It Really Is.”
The Conversation Continued and Covered a Myriad of Topics, from the War in Gaza to Journalistic CredIbility and the NEED TO PURSUE FAts. Cover-Up Premieres at the 2025 Venice Film Festival On Friday, Aug. 29.