Question Everything with Brian Reed

Our team at Question Everything has been playing around with a new technology that sucks up tons of social media posts, and then uses AI to figure out what ideas are forming in the shadows of the internet before they hit the mainstream. Brian interviews a journalist who uses this tech, to see what conversations are brewing right now that we might want to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks. “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

We hire a freelancer to research every comment Donald Trump has made about the press. He ends up telling his wrestling buddy about the assignment, and using it to see if he can get him to trust in journalism. You can find more work by Sam Eagan here [https://www.concretecowboy.media/]. “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A special election-eve episode from Brian: Ruminations on a story that never was, and a late night conversation with the source he was supposed to make it about.  “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Did you hear us on This American Life? Keep listening as Brian stops doomscrolling and starts doom-living. He brings two journalists he saw duking it out on Twitter into a studio, where they debate how to report on lies and racism in the Trump era. Then he finds a journalist who’s putting their big theoretical questions into practice – at a personal cost – as she covers one of the most messed up stories of the election cycle.  Watch the unedited conversation between Jeff Jarvis and David Folkenflik [https://youtu.be/gjD3D8mvLwI]. Subscribe to the Question Everything newsletter: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/question-everything [https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/question-everything] “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A married couple finds themselves fighting miserably over the news. So they set out on a quest for the seemingly impossible: to find a news source that both a self-admitted “bleeding heart liberal” and a Trump supporter can trust. Check out Tangle News [https://www.readtangle.com/] here.  “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]