Rob Rosen: Wrongful Convictions and the Media's War on Truth
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Rob Rosen, investigative journalist and HBO producer
04:00 – Why Rob wrote Crimes of Omission and what broke him in 2020
07:00 – How newsroom monoculture shaped anti-police coverage
10:00 – Ferguson and Michael Brown: what Eric Holder's DOJ report actually said
15:00 – The full Michael Brown story the media buried — including his mental state
20:00 – Hands up, don't shoot: why it never happened
22:00 – Philando Castile, Diamond Reynolds, and what the dash cam showed
28:00 – The stat: how many unarmed Black men did police kill in 2019?
32:00 – A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max: nine people released, the system mostly works
36:00 – The Serial podcast, credulous journalism, and how Reasonable Doubt was born
40:00 – Weaponized empathy: Norman Mailer, OJ Simpson, Luigi Mangione
45:00 – Suicidal empathy and Queers for Palestine
48:00 – BLM: what their own website said that journalists refused to report
54:00 – Defund the police was literal — Hawk Newsome said so on Rob's own podcast
57:00 – Why we don't have a shared reality anymore and what journalism has to do about it
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Investigative journalist and HBO producer Rob Rosen, author of Crimes of Omission, joins Lou to talk about media bias, the Michael Brown case, "hands up, don't shoot," and the real BLM story.
We also get into what broke him in 2020, newsroom monoculture and anti-police coverage, what Eric Holder's DOJ report actually said, Philando Castile and the dash cam, the stat on unarmed Black men killed by police in 2019, A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max, the Serial podcast and credulous journalism, weaponized empathy from Norman Mailer to Luigi Mangione, Queers for Palestine, and Hawk Newsome saying defund the police was literal.