The Journalism of Everything Podcast
The Journalism of Everything Podcast
Podcast Description
Have you ever wondered if birth order determines one's personality? Or if we know what happens in our brains when we have deja vu? Have you thought about the rights undocumented immigrants have? Does capitalism improve healthcare innovation?
The Journalism of Everything Podcast takes curiosity to another level. Host Darisse Smith is an experienced freelance journalist that brings research, expert interviews, and thoughtfulness to a wide array of topics. Let's go beyond a Google search and find out about everything!
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The podcast explores a wide range of topics including legal justice, immigration policies, cultural phenomena, and historical curiosities with episodes like the discussion on vigilante justice featuring Professor Jon Michaels and immigration issues with attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford, highlighting societal implications and regulatory nuances.
Have you ever wondered if birth order determines one’s personality? Or if we know what happens in our brains when we have deja vu? Have you thought about the rights undocumented immigrants have? Does capitalism improve healthcare innovation?
The Journalism of Everything Podcast takes curiosity to another level. Host Darisse Smith is an experienced freelance journalist that brings research, expert interviews, and thoughtfulness to a wide array of topics. Let’s go beyond a Google search and find out about everything!
“Our media is not free. It’s the enemy of the people.” — Donald Trump, January 6, 2021
What happens when a U.S. president calls the press “the enemy”? In this powerful episode of The Journalism of Everything Podcast, host Darisse Smith investigates how Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on journalists have reshaped American democracy — and how history warns us of the dangers ahead.
From Trump’s early use of “fake news” in 2016 to his executive order cutting funding for NPR and PBS, this episode explores the chilling pattern of censorship, retaliation, and propaganda that has taken root in the United States.
You’ll hear from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel, chair of UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism Program, as he discusses what it truly means to “empower the powerless and oppress the powerful,” and why an independent press is the backbone of democracy.
Darisse also connects the modern assault on journalism to its historical roots — from Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” to the First Amendment’s founding vision — reminding us that free speech and a free press aren’t partisan luxuries. They are the essence of freedom itself.
“If you believe the media should be censored, you are not a patriot. You stand for authoritarianism.”
This is one of the most urgent and thought-provoking episodes yet — a deep dive into how truth, power, and journalism intersect in 2025.
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