I'm Brian Reed. I have a new show where I'm re-examining journalism. It's called Question Everything.

And I really am questioning everything, including my own work. In the first episode,

I sit down with a fellow journalist who called my most well-known story, S-Town, morally indefensible.

Why do you think this is a story at all? What's your answer to that criticism of mine and others, even questioning whether or not

it's legitimate to do this?

Question Everything is my real-time quest to try and make journalism better.

It's a show for anyone who's felt frustrated or misled by the news at a time when so many people believe that journalism and journalists are failing.

I view myself as covering this as this is something that is happening.

This being, this being people believing so much bullshit.

I do feel like that as a reporter that like it is an exercising failure. A jailer made the remark, well, I guess you'll quit writing about the DA now. I said, dude, I'm already writing this story that's happening right now. I'm already writing that in my head as we sit here. I think I have to be more aware to tell you about the process because that blowback can be more intense these days. But standing in

front of that blowback or riding in a way to make it not happen, I'm not sure that's my role.

MSNBC. CNN is enough. It doesn't matter what they're saying. He just automatically dismisses it.

Well, they develop their own reputation. Okay. I could deliberately try to influence events, and that is not quite kosher for a journalist.

She's like, what do I possibly get out of that?

I really had to think about, like, what does she get out of this to tell the story on the radio?

And the only thing I came up with was was like, when people hear a story that they

can connect to, it like, it gives you a feeling. This is so corny. I didn't understand, well,

how is that journalism? I think that if journalism is about truth, we need to understand some of the

wise. And from your perspective, as a listener, that wasn't clear?

No.

That, to me, is a failure on our part.

I definitely think they should be placed in jail.

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