Reverse Shot with Brian Karem

Brian speaks with former media reporter with The Washington Post - Paul Farhi about his latest article entitled "In News Deserts, Trump Won in a Landslide". Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.

Brian interviews Steven Monacelli - a local freelance reporter in Texas who broke the story of a white supremacist working as an ICE prosecutor. Steven is a special investigative correspondent at the Texas Observer, a columnist at the Barbed Wire, and a publisher @proteanmag.

Brian talks about the stupid questions from journalists at Donald Trump's latest press conference.

Brian discusses Donald Trump banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office over the Gulf of Mexico dispute.

Brian plays clips from the President Trump's new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at her first White House Press briefing.

Being a licensed pilot - Brian explains how a difficult it is to be an air traffic controller and how hard it is to land a plane in one of the busiest airports in America. He also discusses some of the media calling out Donald Trump's lies about the crash during his press conference.

Olivia Troye speaks out about her battles with Kash Patel and the new Trump regime. And we examine the art of taking things out of context.

We interview key Democratic strategist - Julie Roginsky about the problems

The nuance behind the story of Biden pardoning his son. This time Brian chats with John Dean and Joe Walsh.

This week we take a look at talking heads protecting their own butts while comedian/activist Hal Sparks is looking for eye-opening legislation to curb disinformation on social media.

How do we get better journalism? Well, for one, we need editors. I’m fine with Elon Musk pontificating. I can handle political interviews shooting off their mouth. But I’m tired of opinion masquerading as fact. This week we speak with Chief White House Correspondent and Editor at Large for C-Q Roll Call John T. Bennett.