Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey, S Town listeners, it's Brian here. I'm dropping in to let you know that I have a new show out that I think you'll enjoy where I'm reexamining journalism, the profession I've worked in for more than 15 years. It's called Question Everything. You can find it anywhere you get your podcast. Question Everything with Brian Reed. And I really am trying to question everything, including my own work. In the first episode, I sit down with a fellow journalist who called my most well known story S Town the podcast. In this very feedback morally indefensible. Why do you think this is a story at all? What's your answer to that criticism of mine and others even questioning whether or not it's legitimate to do this? Question Everything is my real time quest to try and make journalism better. It's a show for anyone who's felt frustrated or misled by the news at a time when so many people believe that journalism and journalists are failing. I view myself as covering this, as this is something that is happening. This being, this being people believing. So much bullshit. I do feel like that as a reporter that, like, it is an exercise in failure. Our jailer made the remark, well, I guess you'll quit writing about the DA now. I said, dude, I'm already writing this story that's happening right now. I'm already writing that in my head. As we sit here. I think I have to be more aware to tell you about the process because that blowback can be more intense these days. But standing in front of that blowback or writing in a way to make it not happen, I'm not sure that's my role. Msnb, cnn. CNN is another. It doesn't matter what they're saying. He just automatically dismisses. Well, they develop their own reputation. Okay, I could deliberately try to influence events, and that is not quite kosher for a journalist. She's like, what do I possibly get out of that? And I really had to think about, like, what does she get out of this? To tell the story on the radio. And the only thing I came up with was, like, when people hear a story that they can connect to it, like, it gives you a feeling. This is so corny. I definitely think they should be placed in jail. I think the reporter should still be in jail. Yes, I do. Wow, okay. And you're saying this to me at Journalists, I guess. Question Everything is from KCRW and Placement Theory. It's available right now wherever you get your podcasts.