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Jiang argues Talese's writing transcends its original time and culture and may be more fully appreciated decades from now, even as the profession that produced him is dying.
Jiang frames conventional journalism and research as the method of collecting information, organizing it, and expressing it.
Jiang says he was detained in northeastern China in 2002 while filming worker protests, signed a confession that he was working illegally as a reporter, and was deported without being charged with a crime.
Jiang says he has committed his life to truth seeking, beginning with journalism in China and attempts to understand ordinary people's lives.
Jiang says coordinated backlash may involve digging up old accusations from his China arrest even though he frames that arrest as journalism work from about twenty-five years earlier.
Jiang identifies translating for Gay Talese in Beijing in 1999 as a formative apprenticeship into journalism.
Jiang says old-school journalism, as modeled by Gay Talese, was a working-class outsider practice of truth-seeking and recording history from a critical lens.
Jiang says journalism broke after Trump's 2016 victory when media aligned with national-security figures and abandoned fair reporting in episodes like Russiagate, COVID, and Ukraine.
"...years from now. Okay? So he is mainly known for his journalism. He is the greatest journalist of his generation, probably the greatest journalist..."
"You're full of praise for China's role in trying to get peace in the Middle East. Here's what I don't get. You were caught..."
"Right. So when I started out as a young journalist, I was subcontracted by PBS to do a documentary on China's WTO entry. And..."
"Yeah, no, that's a really good question. And there's something that I've struggled with all my life, because ever since I was young, I..."
"I mean, like, I don't want to brag or anything. But like, I feel that's why I've committed my entire life to truth seeking,..."
"Yeah. And look, look, the reality. Is that this is what we're seeing, right? We're just seeing, of course, coordinated social media campaign against..."
"So the year is 1999. And I had described it to you. I started from Yale and I went to Beijing to learn the..."
"...journalist. Right. And it really, it epitomizes the golden age of journalism when, you know, journalists were part of history and they were making..."
"...way that I saw myself as a journalist, as well as journalism in general."
"And so I saw it, I saw journalism as really about fighting for the truth, about fighting for the common man. And that's, and..."
"...it was that big of a deal, but the journalists were, journalism was making out to be like this, you know, apocalypse. And then..."
"And he was very proud of that. When he interviewed Putin, Putin said to him, hey, I know you. I know that you once..."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
A source-grounded reading of literary journalism as a two-part discipline: exploration begins when a researcher can listen until a stranger becomes a friend; reflection begins when craft becomes patient pursuit of perfection.
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