Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

Things are growing great over here today. Thank you for asking. I hope all the listeners are doing fantastic.

Very excited about this conversation, but first Tim, you.

Dish. How are you?

I'm doing great over here Lance. Thanks for asking.

And I'm excited about this conversation. We were contacted by a very professional individual named Dr. David Pearlmutter.

And he has a very impressive title, Professor and Dean, College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University.

What is he doing contacting us? I don't know, but that's what we spent about an hour trying to figure out.

I find it really cool to have these moments that are seemingly random when someone like him reaches out to us. He's got a PhD, so he is a doctor.

And he insisted that we call him doctor at every opportunity in this interview. I'm just kidding. He's very humble.

So circling back to your question, Tim, why is a person like this contacting us in regards to missing people, in regards to the coverage that these cases receive from the meeting.

And how is that an interesting hour long conversation?

Well, I think there's a lot of interesting ways Lance that we can have conversations with Dr. Pearlmutter and they can be important in the work that we do.

He studies media and media's response to crime. He's also written books. He wrote a book called Policing the Media.

And there's another one called Blog Wars that he wrote. And we speak about them very briefly in the conversation.

But I think there's a lot that we can learn from him and his point of view and his approach into ethics and journalism and new mediums and how to handle new situations.

But I think that's really what he likes about what we do is that we've been handling these new situations that he is teaching his students about. And I think in a lot of cases, we do things that we aren't even realizing are probably being discussed in classes like taught by Dr. Pearlmutter.

And this was a great back and forth. It was a great conversation because not everything that we brought up, what we brought to the table, he agreed with.

And you need to be challenged from time to time. And he does push back on some of these points and it makes for a better, more productive conversation on both sides because he sees where we're coming from and we're seeing where he's coming from.

And there's some place in the middle that I think you can take something from and you can move on and try to do better in your work.

Alright, everyone. Well, I hope you find this conversation as interesting as we do and please refer to the links in the show notes to check out some of Dr. David Pearlmutter's work and the courses that he teaches at Texas Tech.

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