True Journalism with Tom Martin and Richard Schreiber

The week's news turned on five institutions and what each put on the record. This week Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin take up a Pentagon inspector general report, a Congressional Budget Office estimate, a Supreme Court order, a state antitrust suit and an AI researcher's resignation — and set each beside the public statements around it. The conversation moves from the Iran war's munitions count and cost, to a third House vote and a Supreme Court order on mail ballots, to the Paramount–Warne...

Peter Maer covered the White House press pool under six presidents and never took the access for granted. A network correspondent from 1977 through his 2015 retirement — first for Mutual Radio and NBC Radio, then 17 years for CBS News Radio — he covered every presidential campaign, convention, and election from 1980 through 2012, and won the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award five times. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to weigh that era...

John St. Augustine says a voice told him to go on the radio. By his account, he began in 1997 with five unpaid one-hour shows at a small station in Escanaba, Michigan, and in 2006 he helped launch the Oprah & Friends channel on XM Satellite Radio as a senior producer, coaching Dr. Oz and Jean Chatzky from guests into hosts. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to recount the 1996 walk that came before his first broadcast — and to explain why he believes the inner v...

Larry Bridgesmith spent more than thirty years representing employers in labor and employment litigation before deciding the courtroom was solving the wrong problem. An adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law School, and a faculty associate at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, he has spent the years since pushing the legal industry to price for value instead of time. This week he sits down with Richard Schrei...

A federal case can turn on a single dictionary entry. This week, Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin trace a run of 2026 stories in which the underlying facts never moved — only the label attached to each one did, from a beach photo of seashells redefined as a threat to a war's death toll redefined by category. The conversation moves from Dr. Anthony Fauci's Fifth Amendment testimony before Senator Rand Paul, to a federal indictment built partly on a dictionary search, to a Pentagon casualty cou...