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The Katie Halper Show

Legend Robert Scheer on the end of humanity, Laura Hazard Owen & Andrew Perez fact check WaPo

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/legendary-robert-70803500 Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez discusses fact checking the Washington Post Fact checker. Bob Scheer is the editor of Scheer Post. Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. Link to Bob's work: https://scheerpost.com/ Link to Bob's radio program: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence Laura Hazard Owen is the editor of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation. She writes a weekly column on fake news and misinformation research. She was previously the deputy editor of Nieman Lab. Before that, she was the managing editor of Gigaom and wrote about book publishing for seven years. Link to Laura's piece: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/07/unimaginable-abortion-stories-will-become-more-common-is-american-journalism-ready/ Andrew Perez is senior editor and reporter at The Lever covering money and influence. Link to Andrew's piece: https://www.levernews.com/emails-raise-questions-about-washpost-fact-checker/ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, you're listening to the KB Helper Show and I'm your host KB Helper.

0:09.4

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for great bonus content including an alternative podcast feed and rarely seen clips that aired on

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our live shows.

0:40.5

Hello and welcome to the KB Helper Show. I'm your host KB Helper so excited to be here with you.

0:45.4

Today we have a great show. We have two segments of the show so first we're going to be talking to

0:50.8

Laura Hazard Owen and Andrew Perez about a very important story. It's kind of a meta story. It's

0:57.4

a story about a story. I'm fearing story about a 10-year-old girl who had to travel across

1:03.5

state lines to access an abortion and then Glenn Kessler, friend of show. I'm being sarcastic

1:09.7

friend of show Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post who's a fact checker said it wasn't true

1:14.8

but it turns out that his claim wasn't true so we're going to get into that story and during the

1:19.5

second half we have on legendary reporter Bob Sheer, Robert Sheer of Sheer Post. He has written for

1:26.0

the LA Times. He was involved in ramparts, the legendary outlet ramparts that helped convince

1:32.1

Martin Luther King this time to oppose the Vietnam War. We'll be talking about his reporting

1:37.4

around the world basically. So let's bring in our first two guests. Very excited. They are both

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making their KB Helper Show debut so you know that KB Helper Show bump. Things are really going to

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change for them. They may get good jobs at places like the Neiman Lab and lever news. Laura

1:53.7

Hazard Owen is the editor of the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard University's Neiman Foundation.

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She writes a weekly column on fake news and misinformation research. Previously the deputy editor

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