As regular readers of this Substack will know, this spring I’ve been writing the Massey Essay on the state of the media — a partnership between Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Literary Review of Canada, where it’s published.
The annual essay honours the legacy of the long-time CBC producer Vincent Massey Tovell. This year’s essay explores the collapse of public trust in the media. Leading up to its publication next week, I’ll be re-running podcast interviews with some of the journalists that helped shape my thinking for this essay. Including today’s conversation, which originally aired in December of 2022.
Freddie deBoer is an American journalist. His new book is How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement.
Freddie deBoer is my guest, today on Lean Out. (Paid subscribers can access the transcript here.)
Massey Essay series: Freddie deBoer