Editorial director Slow Burn + One Year. Podcast host: ONE YEAR (77, 86, 95, 42, 55), SLOW BURN (David Duke), HANG UP AND LISTEN. Author: NBCC winner THE QUEEN.
Aug 25, 2019 • 34 tweets • 12 min read
Given the reporting about the “attribution issues” with the hit podcast Crime Junkie, I thought the time was right to talk about my experience with the comedy/history podcast @thedollop. A THREAD.
In 2013, I published a long feature in @Slate on Linda Taylor, aka the original “welfare queen.” It took a year of reporting -- deep dives with primary and secondary sources + a ton of original interviews slate.com/articles/news_…
Jul 19, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
This story, which was originally published in the Washington Star and then reprinted in the NYT, reveals a lot about the differences between Reagan and Trump + the problems with journalistic “fact-checking”
Reagan started telling the Linda Taylor story on the campaign trail in early 1976. He never mentioned her name, never discussed her race, and never used the phrase “welfare queen” (altho he would say it a couple times later, off the trail). He called her "a woman in Chicago"
