Charles Piller

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I see that you live on what's called a hobby farm outside of Nashville and that you do beekeeping, yes?

Coming up next on Passionstruck. I think people of good intentions can make mistakes. They can be drawn into actions that are counterproductive, that are even counter to what their expressed views and wishes would be.

My job is to try to tell the bigger story, to tell the human story behind some of these concerns, so that I don't want to leave readers with a sense of cynicism. I think it's important to view the world as it is, but also to try to generate a sense of hopefulness about what it can be by exposing bad actions and trying to correct them, and also pointing out where things in the future might benefit from some of the work that's being done.

Kyllä, kiitos tästä kysymyksestä, John. Olen ollut kiinnostunut tästä pitkällä aikavälillä, ja olen oltava melko vanha, että olen ollut inspiroitunut joitain tutkimusrajoituksista. Aiemmin Watergate-eraan olin lapsi, mutta olin kiinnostunut siitä, mitä tapahtui.

Ja minulle inspiraatio on ollut se idea, että ilmoittamalla asioita voimme auttaa huomioimaan yleisöä ja antaa ihmisille paremman näkökulman ymmärtämisestä maailmastamme. Olen työskentellyt tutkimuksen tutkimuksessa hyvin pitkän ajan. Olen tehnyt myös erilaisia järjestelmiä, kuten teknologian ja yrityksen tutkimusta.

What has inspired me to do this is the hope and the thought that some of my articles could help people move in a direction of improving society and basically interrupting some corruption that might be causing harm to people. And so that's been my inspiration both when I worked for newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee and now

One of the things that I face all the time is that we live in a complex world where more than one thing can be true at once. There are contradictions that are often brought into high relief by investigative reporting. Let me give you an example, not at the very beginning of my career, but this was about 20 years ago when I was working at the Los Angeles Times and I did a multi-part investigation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

and some of the difficult contradictions in their work. This is an institution that's done great good in the world, in my opinion, has contributed to research that has helped turn back some terrible diseases and has been very generous in their support of important scientific research. But at the same time, I found in my reporting that the organization was also making investments in

Companies that were engaging in practices that directly contradicted their good works from their philanthropic efforts. And so what my stories were trying to do is to explain that we live in this complex world where people can

be engaged in beneficial efforts, but also at the same time be doing things that contradict their work and that people need to look at those nuances and to understand how they shape our world.