1427: Rod Decker’s Life as a Utah Political Reporter
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 265 minutes
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Summary
Join me today as I sit down with a living legend, Rod Decker, who has gained great prominence in Utah over the past 50 years as a journalist, columnist, and reporter for KUTV Channel 2 news. An observer of Utah politics from an early age, Decker has a truly unique perspective on Utah culture, faith, and politics, and I could not be more honored to have him as a guest on Mormon Stories Podcast.
Rod Decker's most recent publication, "Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room" can be purchased here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is March 29th |
| 0:07.0 | 2021 and |
| 0:08.6 | Today we are interviewing someone who I have wanted to interview for probably 30 years |
| 0:14.2 | 25 to 30 years. I don't think that's an exaggeration in some sense this person I'm interviewing has been an |
| 0:20.5 | Inspiration to me and a role model for multiple decades and I'm not exaggerating today. We are interviewing |
| 0:27.6 | Journalist Utah journalist Rod Decker. Rod Decker. Welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. Thank you. Thank you for the nice introduction. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, it's not over. |
| 0:40.0 | So |
| 0:41.2 | Some of you will have no idea who Rod Decker is which is kind of mind-boggling to me |
| 0:46.5 | Because Rod Decker was kind of an institution in Utah for multiple decades and then a bunch of you will |
| 0:52.0 | Absolutely know who Rod Decker is and you'll be thrilled and delighted that I'm interviewing him but Rod Decker worked for Deserite News for eight years and |
| 1:00.8 | Then he worked for KUTV or Channel 2 news in Utah for 37 years and he was kind of the |
| 1:10.6 | Utah journalist in my opinion that did great news kind of in the tradition of Edward Armurrow and you know |
| 1:18.4 | Chad Huntly and David Brinkley and |
| 1:22.1 | you know |
| 1:23.1 | Andy Rooney and kind of the amazing |
| 1:26.2 | Journalists of the of the 50 60 70s and 80s in my mind |
| 1:31.2 | Ed Decker kind of embodied that tradition and represented it in Utah for over 40 years for 45 years and |
| 1:39.5 | He has been involved in so many of the most important |
| 1:43.2 | Utah news stories over the over the past several decades and |
| 1:49.6 | After he retired from 45 years of news he has been returning to a |
| 1:55.8 | Passion that he loves and has wanted to be involved in for a long long time |
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