#130 Sources, Methods & Music w/ Robert Costa
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Bob speaks with The Washington Post's Robert Costa about the methods used by reporters covering the White House and Capitol Hill. Costa talks about how journalists build and maintain trust with confidential sources inside of the White House, how an article is constructed when multiple reporters share a byline, and everything else that goes into writing the first draft of history. Bob and Robert also talk about music, Robert's early years working in the music industry, and their shared love of Phish.
Robert Costa covers politics for the Washington Post, is an analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, and is the moderator for Washington Week, which airs Friday nights at 8 on PBS.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Cyrus. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello! |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Gary. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Sean. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Brad, and together we cast a pod known as |
| 0:11.0 | Which is Better? |
| 0:12.0 | You guys ever wonder which is better? |
| 0:14.0 | Well wonder no more. |
| 0:16.0 | Join us as we tackle the topics. |
| 0:17.0 | We seek understanding. |
| 0:18.0 | And we settle the debate on all the subjects you care about. |
| 0:22.0 | D.C. versus Marvel. Prince versus Michael Jackson. Liberals versus conservatives. King Kong |
| 0:26.5 | versus Godzilla. Bruce Lee versus Jackie Chan's. Science versus religion. And many more. That's us. |
| 0:33.1 | Which is better? Which is better? I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the Road to Now. |
| 0:53.1 | And today, Ben, we are airing on tuesday uh in honor of memorial day yes and all the |
| 0:59.5 | celebrations that go on and the honoring of those who fought and served to protect and defend |
| 1:06.8 | our country and our constitution and so that is why we are launching this episode today the day |
| 1:15.1 | after Memorial Day yes as a lot of you know that um probably remember from our GI Bill episode like |
| 1:21.7 | we there are just these things that I think are sacred and we should care about and with Memorial |
| 1:27.0 | Day it's really about like it's not. And with Memorial Day, it's really |
| 1:27.7 | about like, it's not about going and thanking living veterans. It's about memorializing those who we |
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