Ford Fischer: Why You Should Surveil the State

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

News, Politics

4.6 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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You've probably seen footage and images of the January 6 riot at the Capitol captured by today's guest, videographer Ford…

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0:00.0	This is the reason interview with Nick Gillespie.
0:07.0	Today's episode is sponsored by three takeaways, a top 2% global podcast.
0:12.0	More on them later in the show.
0:15.0	You've probably seen footage and images of the January 6 riots at the Capitol building captured by today's guest,
0:22.6	Ford Fisher. A decade ago, Fisher co-founded News to Share a radical experiment in decentralized
0:30.5	video journalism. He and his colleagues gather long-form footage from all sorts of breaking news
0:36.1	events, including protests organized by radicals
0:39.3	all across the political spectrum. They uploaded to YouTube and elsewhere, and then they
0:44.5	let viewers draw their own conclusions. His coverage has been licensed worldwide and appears
0:50.2	regularly on networks ranging from CNN to Fox News to NBC.
0:55.7	Fisher's channels at YouTube and Facebook regularly get demonetized and in other sorts of
1:01.1	trouble because of the controversial nature of his work.
1:05.2	I talk with him about why he started News to Share and what he hopes to accomplish
1:10.1	by offering something truly
1:11.9	unique in an age of 24-7 news coverage.
1:16.1	Here is the Reason interview with Ford Fisher.
1:19.8	Ford Fisher, thanks for talking to Reason.
1:21.6	Thank you for having me here.
1:22.9	To get it out of the way you interned for Reason in 2014.
1:26.2	Yep, that's right.
1:27.4	Okay. Did you have any good takeaways from that? of the way you interned for Reason in 2014. Yep, that's right.
1:27.8	Okay.
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