TLPP: They Lied ABout BLM w/ Rob Rosen

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  Watch A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max  The Lou Perez Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU  Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r  TheLouPerez.com |  [email protected]  Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez #MediaBias #CrimesOfOmission #Ferguson #BLM #TrueCrime #LouPerezPodcast #Journalism #MichaelBrown #WrongfulConviction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices