Doing Journalism in a Fake News World, with Stephen Lacey

Nick sits down with Stephen Lacey — co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media, host of Open Circuit, and former Editor-in-Chief of Greentech Media — for a conversation about what it actually takes to make trustworthy media in a "fake news" world. They get into why Stephen thinks the "legacy media is biased" argument is mostly BS (it's really hyper-partisanship coloring how people read otherwise solid reporting), why data centers exploded overnight into a 2026 midterm litmus test before anyone had time to figure out what's actually true, and why the popular narrative blaming data centers for your electric bill isn't backed by the numbers Stephen's actually watching. Plus: the real difference between "I'm just asking questions" podcasters like Rogan and Tucker Carlson versus actual journalism, a live case study of the NYT/Politico flip-flop on the Graham Platner story, and Stephen's pitch for the one unsexy fix that could actually rebuild trust — local news.