Josh Baker
speaker
244 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Josh Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A few weeks into Austin's trip, David arrives in Syria.
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Do you remember the first day you saw him?
For the next few weeks, David and Austin work as a team, traveling around Syria with rebel fighters known as the Free Syrian Army, or FSA.
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It's very unglamorous, rough and ready journalism.
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But Austin and David become friends.
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By placing himself this close to the fighting, Austin is putting himself in real danger.
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But that proximity gives him access to stories few other journalists have.
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And it gets him noticed by major news organisations.
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So much so that he's now being interviewed for his analysis on the Syrian civil war.
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A conflict he was unfamiliar with just a few weeks ago.
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I mean it's a complex thing as a journalist, right?
Because the second that you're
telling people how to shoot better or engaging with military planning that you're contributing to
The killing of others to some degree.
Yeah.
It's a pretty big line to cross.
It sounds like Austin is still learning that as a journalist, he's meant to be an observer.
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And while his service as a marine in Iraq and Afghanistan is a source of pride for him,
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In Syria, that history can be read very differently.
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That he was part of a Western force that invaded and destabilized the region.
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