The Gutowski Files Episode 11: The Washington Post Mass Shooting Pics
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss The Washington Posts editorial decision to selectively publish graphic pictures from mass casualty incidents involving AR-15 pattern rifles.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, already again, welcome back to the Gatowski Files, starring Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:10.1 | He is the founder of the reload.com and the host of the weekly reload podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | This week we have important stuff to talk about. |
| 0:16.3 | Not that we don't every week, but this week I want to kind of get right to it because I have limited time, but I want to make sure Stephen has enough time to talk about this. |
| 0:24.2 | And I think this is critical. |
| 0:25.6 | We're actually talking about, can I use the word reportage, Stephen? |
| 0:30.7 | Is that a word? |
| 0:32.3 | Is that a word? |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.7 | Reportage. |
| 0:35.2 | So if we're talking about, recently the Washington Post, |
| 0:39.2 | which was my newspaper of record as a young man growing up in the D.C. |
| 0:42.2 | area and was for a long time a well-respected newspaper of record, |
| 0:46.2 | kind of like the New York Times and L.A. Times, |
| 0:50.5 | anyway, you get the idea. |
| 0:53.2 | And recently they did a, I guess you'd call it a piece, a story, |
| 0:56.7 | where they published a lot of very graphic photos. And this was something that traditionally they |
| 1:01.8 | didn't do. And so Stephen over at the Reload wrote an article entitled, it's an analysis piece, |
| 1:07.0 | The Washington Post's problematic approach to publishing gory mass murder photos. |
| 1:12.2 | And the idea being that this is something traditionally they didn't do. And they decided to do |
| 1:16.3 | it very specifically. And they decided to pick very specific cases, the pictures of which to show. |
| 1:23.0 | So Stephen, talk to us about what's going on and your take on that. |
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