Pursuing R. Kelly: The Reporter Who Never Gave Up

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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For two decades, accusations of sexual impropriety have been leveled at the R&B superstar. And Jim DeRogatis has been covering the story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:01.1	podcast. I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:04.0	No music this week, because this week we are speaking
0:07.6	about something is very serious and something that
0:11.8	deserves quiet. And that deserves quiet.
0:13.5	And that is the current set of allegations
0:17.2	against R Kelly and also 18 at this point,
0:21.6	almost a decade and a half of allegations against R Kelly in order to talk about what's been happening recently and also about the historical precedence for what's we've been seeing in the last few months.
0:31.0	There really is only one person to talk to and that person is Jim Deregattis. Hey Jim.
0:36.4	Hi John, it's an honor to be chatting with you. I'm so happy you're here. Jim's calling in from
0:41.1	Chicago where he lives and Jim is one of the hosts of sound opinions was a long running pop cast precursor
0:48.8	Shouts the sound opinions.
0:50.6	Jim was also for many years the pop critic at the Chicago sometimes and Jim is also an
0:56.2	associate professor he's moved on to the good life as an associate professor at Columbia
1:00.8	college teaching reviewing the arts.
1:03.4	Jim, thank you again for being here.
1:05.0	Really do appreciate it.
1:06.6	Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:07.6	It's an important, really important subject, John.
1:11.0	Let's set the table a little bit for what's been happening over the last few months.
1:15.0	Let's start with your BuzzFeed story that came out not that long ago.
1:20.0	Well, the first Buzzfeed story was in July last year and it took me nine months to work on it.
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