What Greenwood Teaches Us About Witnessing

🎧 This episode takes a close, unguarded look at Phoebe Greenwood’s Vulture, a novel that dismantles the myths surrounding war reporting with a precision only an insider could wield. Rather than glorifying the correspondent’s life, Greenwood lingers in its moral fog: the fixers who risk everything for someone else’s byline, the reporters who drift between cynicism and self-deception, and the heavy, unspoken complicity that hangs over every “objective” dispatch. What emerges is a story not about Gaza alone, but about the people who come to witness it, the industry built on their gaze, and the quiet wreckage left behind when the cameras are off. Greenwood reveals these truths with restraint, melancholy, and an honesty that cuts deeper than most nonfiction ever allows.