COJ #164 - Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Maggie Freleng on The Objectivity Lie and Criminal Justice Reform
Cup Of Justice
Luna Shark Productions, LLC
4.6 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:49.6 | Hello and happy Tuesday. I feel like I've spent most of 2026 wondering where journalism has gone. |
| 0:57.0 | Specifically, big media outlets, like the New York Post in the Washington Post, |
| 1:02.0 | but also smaller TV stations and print newsrooms, where the truth gets prescriptively diluted by the lies that come with so-called objectivity, |
| 1:12.9 | which is basically a thing created by the good old boys to appease the good old boys. So we are not |
| 1:19.4 | here for that, which is why I'm making it a mission to celebrate the work of those journalists who |
| 1:25.3 | are doing the work to set the record straight, |
| 1:28.3 | especially when it comes to the justice system, which is the backbone of everything in this country. |
| 1:34.3 | When the system works, society is better for it. |
| 1:37.3 | When the system doesn't work, when the system seeks to protect those in power over exposing the actual truth, it is catastrophic. |
| 1:46.0 | It is life and death, and there is no one who goes unscathed. |
| 1:50.0 | This is why I'm really excited to introduce you all to today's guest, because she is doing the work. |
| 1:58.0 | Maggie Freeling isn't just a very cool person and a lot of fun to talk to. |
| 2:03.5 | She is one of the most important voices and criminal justice reformed journalism today. |
| 2:08.8 | And if you're not already listening to her work, you absolutely should be. |
| 2:13.8 | Maggie is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the host of Bone Valley Season 3, Graves County, |
| 2:20.3 | as well as co-host of the acclaimed Wrongful Conviction Podcast. |
| 2:25.3 | Her investigative work has exposed systemic failures in our justice system and has helped secure the freedom of people wrongfully imprisoned. In fact, the first season of Bone Valley played a crucial role in getting Leo Schofield |
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