#428 - James O'Keefe - The State Of Modern Journalism
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
James O'Keefe is an investigative journalist and the Founder of Project Veritas.
Faith in mainstream media is at an all-time low. At a time when we need better quality information, pretty much everything seems like it's been made with spin in mind. Creating an alternative type of journalism is filled with legal, ethical, organisational and personal dilemmas and today James explains some of the biggest ones he faces.
Expect to learn what it feels like to have Anthony Fauci call you out by name during a hearing, why James was raided by the FBI at 6am, James' response to criticisms about undercover reporting, how Project Veritas deals with the ethics of releasing undercover documents, whether James sees himself as impartial, how many times he's been sued and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour friends, welcome back to the show my guest today. |
| 0:04.7 | It's James O'Keefe, he's an investigative journalist and the founder of Project Veritas. |
| 0:09.8 | Faith in mainstream media is at an all-time low. |
| 0:12.9 | At a time when we need better quality information, |
| 0:15.7 | pretty much everything seems like it's been made with spin in mind. |
| 0:19.2 | Creating an alternative type of journalism is filled with legal, ethical, |
| 0:23.3 | organizational and personal dilemmas. |
| 0:25.8 | And today, James explains some of the biggest ones that he faces. |
| 0:29.4 | I expect to learn what it feels like to have Anthony Fauci call you out by name during a hearing. |
| 0:34.4 | Why James was raided by the FBI at 6am. |
| 0:37.7 | James's response to criticisms about undercover reporting, |
| 0:40.9 | how Project Veritas deals with the ethics of releasing undercover documents, |
| 0:45.0 | whether James sees himself as impartial, |
| 0:47.2 | how many times he's been sued, and much more. |
| 0:51.4 | No matter what you think about Project Veritas or their methods, |
| 0:54.7 | James has never lost a lawsuit once. |
| 0:57.0 | He's been sued a ton of times, he's been deposed a ton of times. |
| 1:00.0 | He's got an entire wall in his office filled with retractions from other media organizations |
| 1:04.9 | with things that they've said about him, which have later turned out to be false. |
| 1:08.5 | And if he did have skeletons in the closet, |
| 1:11.4 | there are some huge, powerful people trying to find them, |
| 1:14.4 | which kind of leads me to believe that there isn't any. |
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