TEASER: Inside Automotive Journalism with Bob Sorokanich

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered what the reporters who cover the auto industry think about oversized SUVs and pickups and whether the fever for these gas-guzzling, space-hogging, planet-heating and people-killing monstrosities will ever break? Bob Sorokanich has some opinions.

Bob Sorokanich was the Editor-In-Chief of Jalopnik, the news site about cars, the auto industry and transportation in general. He was also the Deputy Editor of Road & Track, one of the most historic and important auto magazines in the U.S., if not the world. In this expansive conversation, Bob talks about the changing face of automotive journalism and why most people — even the most died-in-the-wool car enthusiasts — hate the kind of driving they typically experience today.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Doug Gordon, one of the co-host of the War on Cars.
0:15.9	What you're about to hear is an excerpt of a bonus episode of the podcast.
0:20.3	It's our interview with Bob Siraconish.
0:23.0	He's the former editor-in-chief of Jelopnik,
0:26.0	as well as the former deputy editor of Road and Track magazine.
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1:00.0	Thanks.
1:07.0	So cars, I'm sure you know that's that. They kill more than 40,000 people a year in America.
1:11.0	They're the largest source of emissions that are screwing up our climate. You know, they've sort of helped to
1:17.2	facilitate this exurban sprawl that is all across our country and causes numerous harms.
1:22.6	I mean, you know the litany of harms.
1:25.4	And I just wondered, like, do automotive journalists
1:29.0	see these harms caused by the car and the auto industry.
1:33.3	Because to me, it's like, it's almost like,
1:35.6	you know, you could be working at like guns and ammo.
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