The Documentary Avalanche: When Sources Want a Reporter, Not Reporting

Robert Cox

11 Jun 2026 — 5 min read

Exhibit filed with Westchester County Clerk, Index 65062/2025

DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 11, 2026) — A few days after I wrote about Dante Hyndman and the challenges reporters face when sources mistake allegations for news, another example landed in my WhatsApp messages.

The source was Andrew Grossberg.

Like many people who contact reporters, Grossberg was convinced he had uncovered something important. Maybe he has. Maybe he hasn’t. At this stage, I honestly do not know. What I do know is that before I understood what he was alleging, he had sent 117 pages of PDFs, multiple YouTube videos and Shorts, medical photographs, probate records, court docket screenshots, WhatsApp messages and assorted images embedded in chats.

The first thing Grossberg sent me was not a story. It was a box.

The Performative Intellectualism of New Rochelle Council Member David Peters

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO THE NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER

Division of Investigations investigations@osc.ny.gov Re: City of New Rochelle — Formal Complaint Requesting Investigation Pursuant to Article V, Section 1 of the New York State Constitution and Article III of the General Municipal Law Complainant: Robert Cox Publisher, Talk of the Sound / Words in Edgewise robertcox@talkofthesound.com

New Rochelle’s 2025 Audit: What the Slide Deck Didn’t Say

A review of the auditor’s presentation, the council’s questions, and what both got wrong DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 10, 2026) — When EFPR Group partner Thomas Smith presented the results of New Rochelle’s 2025 financial audit to the City Council on Tuesday, he opened with good news: the city