Nick Reed PODCAST: 08.03 - Comments Made By The Springfield-News Leader

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 2:28 p.m.

Nick Reed talks about a variety of topics, including: The Springfield News-Leader wrote an article about the protests that are ongoing at Mercy regarding the vaccine mandate. Over half of the article, including the headline, states that many of the protesters are QAnon followers. A person who was at the protest gave us a call and says the "journalist" never asked if he was a QAnon follower, just assumed and then wrote the article. Steve Pokin then wrote a piece about how journalists have been "threatened" in the last several months. Pokin also mentions the Mercy article. Pokin states " [Colleague Andrew] Sullender heard a man at the protest shout at passing traffic: "Where we go one, we go all!" He recognized that as a QAnon catchphrase. I would not have realized that."