"I feel like those stories are treated in a very, a specific kind of way where a lot of its internalized and believed pretty quickly. And i always wanted to create a bit of a pause for the evidence to catch up to what the allegations were," he says. "And then now it just like a, it's just like a snapshaw of, just, like a reporting journey that has a commentrue and a few things, including breton, that people are tapping into and taken forward."
Brian Reed and Hamza Syed are co-hosts of the new podcast The Trojan Horse Affair.
“I had lost all faith in the reporting that already happened on the subject matter. And that was my mentality with each source and each interviewer. I wanted the debate ended in the room because I didn't want commentary beyond it. I didn't want any kind of interpretation beyond it. I wanted the situation to be resolved there and then…. And without certain answers, I thought we weren't going to be able to speak about this matter in the way that I wanted to speak about it.” —Syed
“I both desperately wanted to know the answer of who wrote the letter, but kind of understood that we probably weren't going to get it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And I thought that I had transmitted that to Hamza and that he understood that. But as time went on, I realized that he had not accepted that as the likely outcome. And this is what was actually so energizing to work with you, Hamza. You never let your hope and desire and hunger to get that answer ever get dimmed. Like, ever.” —Reed
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