{"id":1998,"date":"2025-12-27T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:07:28","slug":"a-decade-of-reveal-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"A Decade of Reveal \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1177478\">\n<article class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">Reveal host Al Letson.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Illustration by Molly Mendoza<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">The first pilot<\/span> episode of <em>Reveal<\/em> exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received\u2014surprisingly quickly\u2014a decade\u2019s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, you have to sue to get the records,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to think that there were some people over there in DC who were as concerned as we were about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After that first show was made, host Al Letson didn\u2019t know what to expect. \u201cWe weren\u2019t sure if any public radio stations would even air it,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript>Subscribe to <em>Mother Jones<\/em> podcasts on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/artist\/mother-jones\/1388496226\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or your favorite podcast app.<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>Reveal<\/em>\u2019s VA investigation sparked outrage. Congress held hearings during a government lockdown, and there\u2019s been a sea change in the way veterans are prescribed painkillers. And today, the show is on more than 500 stations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week on <em>Reveal<\/em>, we celebrate our 10-year anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite stories, from investigations into water shortages in drought-prone California to labor abuses in the Dominican Republic. And we interview the journalists behind the reporting to explain what happened after the stories aired.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/podcast\/reveal-10-year-anniversary\/\"><em>March 2025<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/reveal-10-year-anniversary-veterans-opioids-dominican-republic-sugar-california-drought\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reveal host Al Letson.Illustration by Molly Mendoza Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. 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