Robert Scheer's byline runs through six decades of American journalism, and this film traces the whole arc, from the radical pages of Ramparts magazine in the 1960s, where he helped break stories on the Vietnam War and CIA operations, through his years as a national correspondent and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, to his current role editing the online outlet Truthdig. Interviews and archival material track how a reporter who made his name challenging Cold War orthodoxy kept pushing against official narratives across the Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama years, covering everything from nuclear policy to the Iraq War to the surveillance state. Colleagues and Scheer himself describe the fights inside newsrooms over what counted as reportable, and the toll of staying an outsider even while working at one of the country's biggest papers. The film uses his career as a throughline for the last sixty years of adversarial reporting itself, asking what happens to that tradition as the institutions that once housed it shrink.