‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés?
- Posted on December 8, 2025
- By The Guardian
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‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés?

He is the prickly hotheaded journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Making a film about his astonishing life and countless scoops was never going to be easy