# 42 SPEND MONEY, SPEAK OUT, STAND UP: A Crisis in Journalism

FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD · Apr 30, 2026 · 18m · transcript

This piece began with the strange, chaotic scene at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—but it became something larger: a look at what happens when journalism itself becomes the target.

A free press is not an abstraction. It is how we know what is happening. It is how power is held to account. It is how citizens remain citizens instead of hostages to propaganda.

In this audio version, I read “Spend Money, Speak Out, Stand Up: A Crisis in Journalism”—about facts, fear, Trump’s war on the press, the journalists still doing the work, and what the rest of us must do now.

Because the time is…