| Hey gang, This past Tuesday, as I was in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium for our Backstage Live event, scores of furious parents in Virginia were descending on the Loudoun County School Board meeting to demand the resignation of the district’s superintendent. They were reacting to a shocking new report from The Daily Wire’s investigative reporter Luke Rosiak exposing the district’s denial of the alleged rape of a young girl by a male student wearing a skirt who entered the girl’s bathroom.
You’ve probably seen footage of the girl’s father, Scott Smith, being arrested at a school board meeting back in June. He attended that meeting to demand accountability and to speak out against the school’s policy allowing students to use any bathroom they wish, based on their “gender identity.” But before Smith could speak, the superintendent spoke up to lecture the public that their concerns about the transgender policy were misplaced, claiming that no sexual assaults had taken place in any school bathrooms.
Smith was livid that they were publicly denying that his daughter’s assault even took place. To make matters worse, a leftwing activist approached Smith and his wife, allegedly saying that she didn’t believe their daughter. A heated verbal argument ensued, and before he knew it, Smith was being tackled to the ground by the police. The video of his arrest quickly went viral, and Smith became the poster child for what the National School Boards Association has labeled “domestic terrorism.”
All he wanted to do was fight for his daughter, and he ended up Public Enemy #1, his face plastered all over the media. The Left held him up as proof that protests at school board meetings needed to be reined in using the weight of the federal government. That would have remained the narrative, if not for the investigative reporting done by The Daily Wire.
Our investigation showed that Smith was not a “domestic terrorist,” but a father intent on holding the school board accountable for the policies that led to the violent assault of his daughter. Dozens of national and international news agencies have since covered our shocking report, telling Scott Smith’s side of the story and exposing the truth. Parents in Loudoun County are rallying to demand accountability, and I won’t be surprised if conservatives make a huge comeback in Loudoun County’s upcoming school board elections.
This is the impact that good investigative reporting can have.
Have you ever wondered why the legacy media is so effective at controlling the narrative? It’s because legacy companies like the New York Times and Washington Post can afford to spend tens of millions of dollars to hire an army of investigative reporters. That means that they are often the ones who get to frame the story to fit their agenda before we can ever get to it to expose the truth.
So why don’t more media companies on the right invest in investigative journalism? Why do we always seem to leave it to the Left to report on a story first?
It’s because investigative reporting is incredibly expensive, and rarely profitable. It often takes weeks of dogged investigative work to write just one story, and most conservative media companies just don’t have the resources to do it.
But The Daily Wire has a secret weapon that other conservative companies do not: our amazing members. Our Daily Wire members provide us with crucial resources, and last November, we promised our members that we would use those resources to build up a robust investigative reporting team. We cannot let the legacy media continue to shape the narrative, forcing conservatives to always play catch up. We need to go on the offensive and expose the truth the legacy media doesn’t want you to hear.
The investigation we released this week is just the beginning. You can expect many more impactful investigations like this one from The Daily Wire in the coming weeks and months.
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Thank you. - Ben
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