#206 Telling History through Journalism with Julian Rubinstein

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bob speaks with freelance journalist, Julian Rubenstein, author of The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).

The book tells the story of anti-gang activist, Terrance Roberts, who shot a young gang member before a peace rally he organized. In telling the story of Terrance Roberts, Rubenstein also tells the history of black organizers from the civil rights era, the black power movement through to today's black lives matter movement.

Rubenstein is a real journalist; he's devoted many years of his life telling the story of Terrance and Denver's North East Park Hill Neighborhood and he was the battle scars to prove it. In an age when so many people have trouble telling the difference between opinion journalism and objective journalism, the depth and scope of Julian's tenacious reporting deserves recognition.

You can follow Julian Rubinstein on twitter at @Julian_Rubinste.

The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.

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0:50.2	This is The Road to Now. I'm Bob Crawford.
0:53.6	These days, there seems to be a lot of confusion out there about the difference between
0:57.6	opinion journalism and what I'll call real journalism. And I don't mean to offend opinion
1:04.6	journalists. I think there's value in it to some extent. But the problem is the audience
1:10.5	can't always tell the difference.
1:14.0	Opinion journalism is journalism that makes no claims of objectivity. Sure, the opinion journalist,
1:22.3	they often view a situation from a distance, they pull together facts, statistics, they add reason,
1:31.0	they add history, and then they present their argument and they render their judgment.
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