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The Slow Newscast

Smear: cartels and conspiracies in Oldham

The Slow Newscast

Alice Sandelson

News, News Commentary, International, Society & Culture, Uk, American, Us, Usa, Journalism, Documentary, British Politics, Investigations

4.6894 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A year ago, journalist Joshi Herrmann got an anonymous tip. It sent him to a website claiming to have evidence of serious corruption, grooming gangs and “cartels” operating in Oldham. From there, Joshi stumbled across a remarkable story about how online conspiracies are poisoning local politics, spilling out from paranoid corners of the internet all the way to the ballot box. And at the heart of it all is on one rather angry man, who calls himself “the recusant”...

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Bashar here and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you.

0:04.8

It's five years since we made our first ever podcast.

0:08.8

Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here.

0:13.2

Basha, do you want to start?

0:14.2

That was the beginning of our weekly investigative show, the slow newscast.

0:18.0

And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then,

0:21.9

what we care about hasn't changed.

0:24.0

Because we still investigate injustices.

0:26.9

Until recently, everything I'm about to tell you was a secret.

0:30.2

We tell gripping stories with a human heart.

0:32.9

It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story,

0:35.6

filled with death, lies and witness protection programs.

0:39.2

But still, it's a love story.

0:41.9

And we investigate in the public interest.

0:44.4

We've won landmark legal battles.

0:47.0

Hello.

0:47.6

I thought you'd like to know we've got the judgment.

0:49.9

It's going to be published.

0:52.2

Oh my God.

0:52.8

You can find our chart topping and award-winning series on Tortus Investigates.

0:58.7

What I uncover is a global game of cat and mouse.

1:03.1

A catch me if you can.

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