Another Take: How to sell a massacre
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on July 17, 2020. None of the dates or references from that time have been changed.
A three-year undercover investigation into the world's most powerful gun lobby ended last year with an explosive report by Al Jazeera's investigative unit that revealed a link between the National Rifle Association and Australia's far right. Journalists from the unit walk us through how they got the story.
In this episode:
- Peter Charley (@petecharley), Manager of Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit
- Jeremy Young (@YoungRJeremy), Al Jazeera Senior Producer
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Amy Walters. The original production team was Amy Walters, with Dina Kesbeh. Priyanka Tilve. Ney Alvarez. Alexandra Locke, and Morgan Waters.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, it's Amy Walters, senior producer at the take. |
| 0:14.0 | Back with another take, where we revisit episodes from the past. |
| 0:18.9 | This week, in Dallas, Texas, thousands of people from the United States and around the world will gather for an annual meaning of the National Rifle Association, the NRA. Back in 2016, Al Jazeera's investigative unit went undercover in Louisville, Kentucky for another convention of the NRA. |
| 0:43.8 | The episode originally aired on July 17, 2020. None of the dates or references have been changed. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay. or references have been changed. Hey there, it's me, Malika Bilal. |
| 1:02.0 | Today on the take, we're bringing back a story that showed what an American gun rights advocacy group, the NRA, a fringe far-right Australian political party, and $20 million had in |
| 1:13.9 | common. These odd bed fellows were the subject of a documentary made by Al Jazeera's investigative |
| 1:19.8 | team, a film that was three years in the making. It gets inside one of journalism's most |
| 1:25.9 | audacious stings. |
| 1:28.0 | How they got the story is almost as wild as what they found. |
| 1:33.1 | So once again, I'm turning the show over to Jeremy Young and Peter Charlie, |
| 1:37.5 | from the network's investigative unit to tell you the rest. |
| 1:56.3 | I'm an Australian citizen born and bred in Australia. |
| 2:02.3 | I started work as a journalist on an Australian newspaper, the City Morning Herald, and moved into television from there. |
| 2:07.2 | For the past five years, I've been based in Washington, D.C., as executive producer of |
| 2:14.0 | Al Jazeera's North American investigative unit, And in that capacity, I launched this particular investigation. |
| 2:20.3 | For three years, Al Jazeera has been investigating the pro-gun lobby, |
| 2:26.3 | filming with hidden cameras inside America's National Rifle Association. |
| 2:31.3 | The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. |
| 2:44.0 | This all started when I was driving one day from Washington, D.C. to Dulles International Airport. |
| 2:51.6 | And I drove past the NRA National Headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. |
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