IFC Media Project's Gideon Yago: 'When Newspapers Take It On The Chin, You Lose Support For Reporting'

Through segments analyzing how thorny topics get covered (such as “The Elusive Missing White Girl,” a.k.a. when middle class child-kidnapping cases dominate the news cycle), interviews with journalists, and cheeky insights into common media parlance (i.e. journos’ tendency to use “allegedly” to cover their collective ass), The IFC Media Project (premiering tonight at 8pm EST) spends its six episodes pulling back the curtain on how news gets made. We spoke with host and former MTV Newsman Gideon Yago (left, giving his best “What the f*ck, journalism?” which pretty much sums up the premise of the show), who filled us in on why, after burning out on “the various people who push on the news media” and “that dance of actually breaking the story,” IFC’s series exposing media’s inner workings brought him out of early TV retirement.

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