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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

New Laura Poitras Documentary: On War, Propaganda & the Corporate Media

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses her new documentary "Cover-Up" about the life and career of the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. 

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0:00.0

Good evening. It's Tuesday, January 20th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every

0:21.8

Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech

0:26.5

alternative to YouTube tonight.

0:28.6

A very special show and a very special guest for you.

0:31.5

She is the Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Laura Poitris, who has a new film that is out on Netflix that is called CoverUp,

0:41.9

which is ostensibly about the life of what I think, the person I think is the greatest investigative

0:47.9

journalist of his generation, Seymour Hirsch.

0:50.7

But it's also a film necessarily about all of the events, the extremely

0:54.7

consequential events that Hirsch has covered over the years, including things like

0:59.3

Vietnam Moore and atrocities committed in Iraq and throughout all sorts of American conflicts,

1:05.6

as well as constant lies and government cover-ups and government propaganda.

1:10.7

And a lot of it might be known to some

1:12.6

of you in very abstract and general terms as it was to me. But even if you feel like you're

1:17.3

familiar with any or all of it, it's still a film that is remarkably affecting. And I actually,

1:23.7

there were a lot of things about those events that I thought I knew a lot about that I learned a lot

1:27.2

about. But just seeing how the film was put together in terms of the role

1:31.2

of Seymour Hirsch and his investigative journalism and what differentiated him from most of his

1:37.1

peers as a critique of the corporate media, not just in the past, but today, but also seeing the

1:42.8

actions of the U.S. government that he played such a vital

1:45.1

role in exposing in terms of what it does in its wars and there will lead up to the war,

1:50.0

how it sells the wars, how it lies about the wars, are topics that even though their

1:55.9

fascinating history could not bear any more relevance than they do to today's event as well. So in some, I can't

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