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Question Everything is out now! · Question Everything

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  Speaker 1: I'm Brian Reid. I have a new show where I'm
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  Speaker 1: reexamining journalism. It's called Question Everything, and I really am
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  Speaker 1: questioning everything, including my own work. In the first episode,
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  Speaker 1: I sit down with a fellow journalist who called my
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  Speaker 1: most well-known story, S-Town, morally indefensible.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think this is a story at all?
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  Speaker 2: What's your answer to that criticism of mine and others,
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  Speaker 2: even questioning whether or not it's legitimate to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Um.
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  Speaker 1: Question Everything is my real-time quest to try and make
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  Speaker 1: journalism better. It's a show for anyone who's felt frustrated
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  Speaker 1: or misled by the news at a time when so
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  Speaker 1: many people believe that journalism and journalists are failing.
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  Speaker 4: I view myself as covering this as this is something
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  Speaker 4: that is happening.
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  Speaker 2: This being.
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  Speaker 1: This being.
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  Speaker 4: people believing so much bullshit.
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  Speaker 5: I do feel like that as a reporter, that like
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  Speaker 5: it is an exercise in failure.
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  Speaker 4: A jailer made the remark, well, I guess you'll quit
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  Speaker 4: writing about the DA now. I said, dude, I'm already
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  Speaker 4: writing this story that's happening right now. I'm already writing
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  Speaker 4: that in my head as we sit here.
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  Speaker 1: I think I have to be more aware to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about the process because that blowback can be.
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  Speaker 3: More intense these days.
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  Speaker 1: But standing in front of that blowback or writing in
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  Speaker 1: a way to make it not happen, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: that's my role. MSNBC.
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  Speaker 2: CNN.
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  Speaker 3: CNN is another one.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what they're saying.
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  Speaker 2: He just automatically dismisses.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they develop their own reputation. Okay. I could deliberately
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  Speaker 3: try to influence events, and that is not quite kosher
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  Speaker 3: for a journalist.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, what do I possibly get out of that?
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  Speaker 2: I really had to think about, like, what does she
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  Speaker 2: get out of this to tell this story on the radio?
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  Speaker 2: And the only thing I came up with was, like,
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  Speaker 2: when people hear a story... that they can connect to,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you a feeling. This is so corny.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't understand, well, how is that journalism? I think
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  Speaker 5: that if journalism is about truth, we need to understand
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  Speaker 5: some of the whys.
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  Speaker 1: And from your perspective as a listener, that wasn't clear?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: That to me is a failure on our part. I
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  Speaker 1: definitely think they should be placed in jail. You think
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  Speaker 1: the reporter should still be in jail?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay. And you're saying this to me, a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Question everything. Every other Thursday. Drop September 12th.