Apr 17, 2026
Lou Perez sits down with investigative journalist and TV producer Rob Rosen, whose debut book Crimes of Omission: Distorted Justice, The Media's War on Truth is available for pre-order now. Rob produced A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max, which led to nine wrongful conviction releases, and spent years at KCBS covering the OJ Simpson trial alongside Harvey Levin.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- How newsroom monoculture shaped anti-police coverage
- Ferguson and Michael Brown: what Eric Holder's DOJ report actually said
- The full Michael Brown story the media buried — including his mental state
- Hands up, Don't shoot: why it never happened
- Philando Castile, Diamond Reynolds, and what the dash cam showed
- The stat: how many unarmed Black men did police kill in 2019?
- A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max: nine people released, the system mostly works
- The Serial podcast, credulous journalism, and how Reasonable Doubt was born
- Weaponized empathy: Norman Mailer, OJ Simpson, Luigi Mangione
- Suicidal empathy and Queers for Palestine
- BLM: what their own website said that journalists refused to report
- Defund the police was literal — Hawk Newsome said so on Rob's own podcast
- Why we don't have a shared reality anymore and what journalism has to do about it
GUEST: Rob Rosen — Investigative Journalist and TV Producer Pre-order Crimes of Omission: https://amzn.to/4triFFV Watch A Reasonable Doubt on HBO Max
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