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Recorded September 19th, 2025. First, Devin confers about his very first formal interview: a religious radio host. He breaks down the myths and rhetoric of The Fortress of Faith. Devin also elaborates on his notion of the “marketplace of ideas,” AKA the free range of media influencers who compete for clicks/reads/listens. An element that contrasts a consumer’s yearning for factual, fluff-free news or echo chambers to fortify their opinion. Both speakers note how cuts to public spending are being done to antagonize educational institutions like universities and public media. At the end, we our compare food groups to media consumption: highlighting the fact that reading from accredited sources should be your fruits and veggies, with politically charged/partisan news outlets playing a smaller role.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Hook & Intro

02:44 The Fortress of Faith

• 18:00 Immigration & Ideology

21:40 Charlie Kirk & Political violence

25:30 The Marketplace of ideas

36:30 Media consumption

• 42:00 Liberation ideology & The printing press
• 47:20 Your “media food groups”

49:35 Soleil Magazine

52:45 The direction of Western Washington University

Episode Sources:

• @DviGreen on Instagram
• Devin Green - The Front
• Soleil Magazine on Instagram
  • Soleil Magazine Debut Issue | Sustainability Engagement Institute | Western Washington University

• Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media – The White House
• Influencers Who Often Post About News, and Who Sees Their Content | Pew Research Center
• WWU to cut 55 positions, $18M in major restructuring | Cascadia Daily News

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First-ever introductory episode of The Reporter. A show which will come to be about journalism, media creation, and media production.

What I want for you, the listener, is to listen along to the show and gain insight into what these everyday people are doing, whether they are a professional editor or an amateur news writer.

This show is to be published twice monthly!