From Placement Theory and KCRW, this is Question Everything.

I'm Brian Reed, and this show is my real-time quest to try and find ways to make journalism better.

So far on that quest, I've been talking to a lot of people who aren't so optimistic about journalism.

These are reporters I admire, academics, politicians, and just regular consumers of news.

And when I ask them about the state of things, I hear a lot of the same points. Trust in news is at an all-time low. People don't believe facts. And then people feel frustrated when they see bias in the media or when they feel lied to. And I expected to hear all of that. That's why I'm here. But recently, one of my producers came to me with a different type of

story. This is the story of a couple, Dick and Emily.

Dick doesn't trust anything, no matter what it is, that comes from the New York Times,

the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Atlantic, MSNBC, CNN is another. It doesn't matter what they're saying.

He just automatically dismisses it.

Well, they develop their own reputation.

Okay.

Today on Question Everything, a story about a couple of more than 20 years in turmoil and how they

tried to get out of it. A story where I got to see these conflicts about journalism playing out

under one roof and taking a toll on one couple's marriage. A story with some lessons not only

for journalists, but for all of us, I think. Stick around.

So I'm here in the studio with one of our producers on Question Everything.

Zach St. Louis.

Hey, Zach.

So, Zach, you're the one who's gotten to know Dick and Emily, this couple that was fighting over the news, right?

Yeah, so their names are Richard and Emily Newton. He obviously goes by Dick. They're in their 70s.

They just celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary. It's a second marriage, both of them. They fell in love singing hymns together in the choir at church.

She's in Alto. He's a bass. That's sweet. Where do they live?

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