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Lou sits down with investigative journalist and TV producer Rob Rosen, whose debut book Crimes of Omission: Distorted Justice, The Media's War on Truth is available for pre-order now. Rob produced A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max, which led to nine wrongful conviction releases, and spent years at KCBS covering the OJ Simpson trial alongside Harvey Levin.
This one gets into it. Media bias, the Michael Brown case, hands up don't shoot, the real BLM story, empathy as a weapon, and the stat that will stop you cold.
TOPICS COVERED:
00:00 — 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
PRE-ORDER Rob's book — Crimes of Omission: Distorted Justice, The Media's War on Truth: https://amzn.to/4triFFV
