When Lies Spread Like Wildfire

At a bar that survived the destruction, a group of reporters get together a year later to talk about the personal impact the LA wildfires had on them. And some of the harrowing – and surprising – requests they got from people to check if their homes were still standing.

Thanks to Good Neighbor Bar and West Altadena Wine & Spirits for hosting us.

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Guests: 

• Tony Briscoe, environmental reporter, Los Angeles Times

• Jacob Soboroff, senior political and national correspondent, MSNOW and author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster”

• Leanne Suter, reporter, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles 

• Michelle Zacarias, reporter, CALÓ News

• Randy Clement, co-owner, Good Neighbor Bar in Altadena, California

Propagandist? Truth teller? Influencer? Question Everything unravels the contested work of journalists and the moral complexities surrounding the stories that impact us all.