This is an I-Heart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air. The Michael Vary Show is on the air. When I was growing up, my father, who did not get to go to college,

believed that every citizen should read the newspaper.

You should be informed.

And he would make reference to things that were going on tax increase a new

building going in a company relocating somebody being arrested or elected or whatever else and if i wasn't

aware of what was going on he'd'd say, it was in the paper.

You were supposed to read the paper.

You were supposed to be informed because there was the belief that that was something we could all share.

It kept us all aware of the same things.

Somewhere along the way, we lost faith, and rightfully so, in media.

And interestingly, as that happened, technology allowed for the every man to be the media.

The citizen journalist is reporting and breaking more news today than anyone.

I think of the work that O'Keeffe has done over the last 15 years,

and some of the undercover work he has done is absolutely incredible.

That is first person journalism reporting.

You have a whole separate group of folks out there, and Houston is blessed with a few of them,

and probably a lot more that I don't know, who are citizen journalists, who have an analyst's mind a good heart a good

cynical distrust for government and a healthy skepticism that they are out to enrich themselves

that's Marissa Hansen that's I, Bob Rehack is his name.

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