A new podcast from Brian Reed. Subscribe here: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/question-everything
Hi there, Trojan Horse affair 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 Estowne, 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?
Um, if you listen to the Trojan Horse affair, you'll know that I was rethinking the way journalism is done during that investigation with Hamza.
This new podcast question everything is a continuation of that journey for me.
It's my real time quest to figure out how we can make journalism better.
A show for anyone who's ever felt frustrated or misled by the news.
At a time when so many people believe 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.
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.