Dan West is a reporter for the Daily Sentinel. He joins Will on the pod to discuss Lauren Boebert's recent antics, attracting attention as a politician, America's tabloid culture, the Hamas attacks, a Fruita man in Israel, how it feels to cover tragedy as a journalist, television versus print coverage of tragic events, why we should get rid of 24-hour cable news channels, how national journalists went from blue-collar workers to rich celebrities, how journalism is a free education for journalists, how the Sentinel decides on its coverage, how the community utilizes the media, Dan's investigate journalism surrounding the closure of Whitman Park in Grand Junction, "homeless" versus "unhoused," how Dan used the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) to view city council emails about Whitman Park, Japan's claim of having zero homeless people, the Colorado "suicide belt," the judgement of homeless people, what it's like to run the editorial page at the Sentinel, why we should be worried about the future of local news, Will's case for local news to better use social media, misinformation versus disinformation versus malinformation, why the Sunday paper is special, society's war on nuance, is America screwed? and more...
