I'm Brian Reid. I have a new show where I'm reexamining journalism. It's called Question Everything, and I really am questioning 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, 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 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 it is an exercise in failure. Our jailer made the remark, Well, I guess you'll quit writing about the DA now. I'm 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. Msnbc. Cnn. Cnn is another one. It doesn't matter what they're saying. He just automatically dismisses it. Well, they developed 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? I really had to think about, What does she get out of this to tell this story on the radio? The only thing I came up with was when people hear a story that they can connect to, it gives you a feeling. This is so corny. I didn't understand, Well, how is that journalism? I think that if journalism is about truth, we need to understand some of the whys. From your perspective as a listener, that wasn't clear? No. That, to me, is a failure on our part. I definitely think they should be placed in jail. I think the reporter should still be in jail. Yes, I do. Wow. Okay. You're saying this to me, a journalist? I guess so. Question everything every other Thursday.

Drop September 12th.