Albert Lanier; Gary Webb

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Speaker 4 (02:03):
I am indeed, how are you?

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:04):
Great? Now your audio sounds great, hundred times better than before. Okay,
this is great, Well, thank you very much. Okay, Well
tell the audience radio it's a radio voice. Well, this
is great. Okay, tell you who is Albert lanear tell
tell the audience.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Okay, before I do that, I have a bit of
a question for you. Who's I like Operaman? Sorry? Sorry,
that's good. That's why I ask. Don't they just a
little about yourself that I'll get to me?

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, listen, now, I got a long life. I got it.
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well you want to hear some stuff. Okay, it was
an intent evangelist. I ran with the bulls in Spain.
I own a nightclub Manhattan as a private investigator. Very
very colorful life.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Uh. Involved in some.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Of the major twenty four hour news stories like I
was telling you off the other Tiger Woods case and
Charlie Sheen case when it went nuts for a year, Wienergate, Zimmerman,
all kinds of fun stuff, Congresslan investigations, my dad. I
live in a wonderful, sunny Las Vegas. I'm getting out
of the shape, my physical body back in shape. And
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(03:10):
And otherwise I'm just a grumpy old mf or just
trying to get through the day.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Crumpy old mfor I like that. I'll speak that. Okay,
that's fair. So let me just tell you a little
bit about myself.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Okay, I'm born.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
And raison onlu Hawaii. I strangely enough, this year is
the thirtieth anniversary of my high school graduation and the
twenty fifth anniversary of my college graduation. I attended a
liberal arts college called the University of Hawaii West O Wahoo,
which I graduated from in nineteen ninety three with a
Bachelor of Arts degrees in the humanity humanities. And in

(03:51):
nineteen ninety four I began what became my career as
not only a journalist, but as a freelance writer. I
was a freelance writer journalists, and even to some extent,
a ghostwriter, as well as writing other types of projects
and materials. I was a freelance writer and journalist from

(04:13):
nineteen ninety four until twenty seventeen. I technically retired last
year in February. February of twenty seventeen, and since May
of twenty seventeen, I've been writing a blog on a
site called medium dot com, like the old school is
www dotmedium dot com. And that's part of the reason

(04:38):
that I'm here today is to promote my blog which
is on medium dot com and it's reached its one
year anniversary this month, and in fact, there's a brand
new blog which I just wrote yesterday about the Gary Webb,
about Gary Web and what happened to his career. I
believe it's called Terminated with Extreme fre Judice, How the

(05:01):
maintream media destroyed the career Gryweb. So you can check
that out, and you can check out my other blogs.
I've written about a number of things. It's largely oriented
toward media and media issues and media aspects as well
as rick from the headlines current events. So I've written

(05:22):
about story Daniels and how the media treat twinmen. I've
also written about what's going on with Meegan Kelly, and
also wrote about Alex Jones. I did it kind of
expose on OX shows called the Infohore the Alex Shows Deception.
So that's one of many a number of blog pieces,
maybe not many, but the number of blog pieces you

(05:42):
can check out at my blog which is at old
schools www dot medium dot com and for the more
postmodern just medium dot com. And it's under my name Albert.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Lemir yeah right, and Lanier spoke La and I e
er when you get to medium dot com correct, So Okay.
When came on the show to talk about Gary Webb,
why don't you describe who Gary Webb was and how
he became famous.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Gary Webb was a reporter for a rather middle daily
newspaper in northern California called the Santase Mercury News, and
he was not just a reporter there, he was an
investigative reporter. And previous to that, Web had been a reporter,

(06:36):
I believe, at the Cleveland Brain Dealer at newspapers in Kentucky.
I think he's from Kentucky, originally went to school there,
and so he had come up through the ranks of
the print journalism trade, much like I didn't write for dailies,
but I went through the print journalism trade. I guess
at this point I should also note my CV my

(06:57):
curriculum vidding as the freelance writers. I have written a
number of publications newspapers and magazines include Hollar Weekly, Specific
Business News, Hawaiian Magazine, Edible Hawaiian Islands, for which I
want an award, and a number of other publications. It'saw

(07:19):
Business Journal, Agent Week, just a number of publications that
I've contributed to. So that's part of my career. Of
Big Agent show to demonstrate the people kind of my
take on it, because this is my take on Garry
Wayne's career, but it's from a journalistic point of view.
Having been a finance journalist and an independent journalist, I

(07:42):
have a certain take on it. In any event, a
Web was working for the Santazie Mercury News at the
time that a series that he wrote came out in
nineteen ninety six, and the name of the series is
called Dark Alliance. Dark Alliance was the series that basically
made is made and made him, as you mentioned famous.

(08:03):
Basically Dark Alliance was about the series that was about
three article series. If I'm not mistaken, the series was
about the crack cocaine trade and trafficking in the United States,
and what we'rether done was isolated largely to the West Coast,
more specifically to Los Angeles, California. Within that context, he

(08:26):
isolated it even further, sort of microsophically, brought down to
the level of about three people. One was Ricky Freugay Ross,
who is a drug dealer who I believe he found
your show. If I'm not mistaken, Sure, yeah, you've got
him on your show. I actually listened to that. It
was a kind of interesting interview. Is also Norman Manessas

(08:48):
and the Neo Bladdag and they were from the Odla.
I believe Manessa's if I'm Not Mistaken had the nickname
that two drugs, I'm Not Mistaken, And they were essentially
the suppliers. Both Manthis and Linda were the suppliers of

(09:08):
raw cocaine to Ricky Up who was selling it to
street games in La and elsewhere, the primarily the in La,
the crypts and the bloods, and was basically making millions
on millions of dollars. I think at one point he
was making three to four million in a day from coocaine.

(09:30):
What happened was that the innovation, if you could call it,
that was to take the cocaine to what was expensed
at that time fifteen leaks seventy eighty cocaine is considered
a highly expensive crook, but a couple hundred dollars of
still or something like that and basically hardening it, turning

(09:52):
it the smaller stones and the losses the term selling
it for much cheaper amounts. So that was the innovation
that Loss and probably others came up with, and that
was The sort of the gist of the article was
loss was the major font for pushing cocaine, primarily crack

(10:15):
cocaine out into not only Los Angeles, but in other
areas on the West coast and eventually around the country,
and that Laddon and Manessas were using the proceeds from
these drug trafficking not only for drug trafficking, but for
our sales to finance the contra A the basically the

(10:40):
control lebel army. Sorry, by that's just my thing. In
the countries were fighting the Sandinista government, which was a
left wing government in the drug way, So that was
sort of the gist. Now, the controversial part of that
series was that the CIA had knowledge or awareness that

(11:05):
drugs were flowing, you know, the drugs are not only
flowing into the country from these Nicaraguan sources, but that
they were protecting these sources because the CIA backed the CONTRASCE. Essentially,
as we have noted in this series, this was the
quote unquote CIA army, that's how I refer to it,

(11:26):
and they were supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Yeah, Ali North, good old Ali North has just got
elected the chairman of the NRA.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
We're going to take over the NRA.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
I think, yeah, yeah, the guy that the set the
price for a kilo of cocaine the United States and
then they can let them uh run the NRA.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
It's it's fascinating.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, you know, Ali Nors is essentially I mean that,
I mean, that guy is so crooked it's not even
worth discussing. Yeah, well discussing in many respects. I mean
probably the depth of his involvement in Shady and Dirty
Church is extensive. I mean, all I need to do

(12:11):
for those of people who are really into Ali North,
all I need to do is mention Rex eighty four.
They'll probably have a connemption fit. But anyway, not the
controversial part of the series when it came out in
nineteen ninety six was the CIA aspect. And so in

(12:32):
the piece that I recently wrote for my blog on
medium dot com, what I do is I look at
how this career was destroyed after this series came out.
It had a tremendous initial impact, and that impact was
substantial because it was like all over the media. Now.
The reason that I discussed this and I'm on your

(12:54):
show now besides promoting my blog, and I hate to
say that because I've never promoted it big in my life,
they have to now. Besides that, the thing, the other
reason is because this serves as an object lesson as
to what can happen in regards to the news media,
the sort of invisible contours and invisible boundaries of the

(13:17):
news behavior which are unknown to most people that are
known for reporters, what you can and you can't get
away with, and basically what even though he did homework,
even though he produced a series that was factual and substantial,

(13:38):
he basically violated these invisible boundaries in the news media.
And that's in my view why he was destroyed ultimately
by the major media, the dominant news media in this country.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
Is that he violated boundaries.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Well, think about it. Web series would have been just
fine had the CIA angle not been a part of it.
That was what was off boundaries. You can't write about
intelligence agencies in this company. You could then and even

(14:22):
now it's very difficult. And keep in mind this is
before nine to eleven. Then the internet was relatively new,
and that was a way also that this series had
a tremendous impact because what Web and the senez Mercury
News did was put the series online and put the
documents online. That was something new at the time, to

(14:46):
put up these documents of a story. We just don't
do that, certainly. I certainly never did that or wasn't
able to do that as much even as the freelance
journalists throughout the nineties and into the just two thousands,
so to speak. But that was kind of an innovationising
up all these documents in addition to the.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Short Now, why do you think it is that mainstream
media and even Gary what he was writing for the
freds New Mercury Mercury something like that with the Mercury
News was Mercury News, Santa Mercury News, right, you know,
which isn't like that's like a weekly paper. This is
not like a big paper, right, No.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I think it was a daily. But it's it's a
it's a it's a rather standard daily. It's not it's
not the big it's not one of the big boys
in California right there in Nevada. In California, the big
papers would be the Los Angeles Times, you know, the
San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, and even in

(15:50):
La So the California La Weekly for example. Those are
the big papers. So something like Santa's a Mercury News
is what Silicon Valley Area or something like that standard daily,
your average kind of big city but but not big
time daily. The reality of the media in this country

(16:11):
is that there were only so many newspapers that matter
in regards to the national pulse of news. When we're
talking just quintet, you got the New York Times, Washington Post. Uh,
you've got Wall Street Journal, and to a lesser extent,

(16:33):
papers like the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times
is the major paper, and you want to laugh, you
dictate the national pulse.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
You want to left real quick because you talk about
the LA Times in the Washington Post. When I was
covering a Bernie campaign, my little uh slot in the
in the in the press pool was right in between
LA Times and Washington Post element o p because I
was opperaman. I'm sitting there, man, right between the LA
Times and the Washington Post.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
That can beat that. But but my questions is them.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
I probably shouldn't say, but I was gonna say. That
must have been very uncomfortable, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yeah, you know, we gotta look.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Lay and I won't go into details, but go ahead.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Now, what how why is it?

Speaker 4 (17:21):
You know?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
I I know from my own experience, Okay, on several
occasions I've had, I'll be trying to book a show
and certain people will insert themselves into my life and
I found out later on that they were CIA okay,
or try and influence the show, either trying and get
booked in the show, or try and influence the show
in different ways. And I say, I don't even come

(17:44):
on to even talk about it. Later on, I kind
of just let it go and said, let the audience
figure it out on their own. But now the thing is,
what is it? How is it that they can influence
a paper like the this San Jose Mercury News in
order to uh like put the kiwash on Gary Webb? Like,
how does that work mechanically?

Speaker 4 (18:05):
As I noted in my blog piece, the recent one,
my anniversary piece, I go through a step by step
dissection of how his career was essentially destroyed. And one
of the aspects of Gary Webb being destroyed what's what
I call the counter offensive or counter attack. And one

(18:28):
of the ways that they work in regards to the
San Jose Mercury News is they turned the news the
Mercury News into an outlier, an outcast. At first, the
Mercury News defended web. But when you've got the big
guns New York Times, Washington Post, and in terms of

(18:49):
California or southern California, the Los Angeles Times, when you've
got all these big guns trained on you, and these
guys are sending out reporters to look at the story
and say, well, you know, that went beyond known facts,
He misstated, he made conclusions that veered from accepted facts
or the accepted truth. This kind of these kinds of aspects,

(19:14):
when you have to have that, what it serves to
do is to isolate and alienate. And so at some
point the Mercury News, being an established, being a basic
mainstringing paper because it was a daily, they gave in.
And it's not unusual that they gave in. Because they're

(19:34):
part of the sort of dominant news media or the
major news media in this country. They may not be
at the very top. I to use the term Bill
O'Reilly would use it because you O'Reilly is nothing but
a sleevey creep who wasn't even a decent reporter and

(19:55):
just saved a lot of stuff that he was reporting on.
But that's a whole other story. But the media elite,
I think he used that term before, the media elite.
So the media elite, when they trained their guns on
you're in trouble. Keep in mind the internet with very
news back then. So it's not like garyre had any

(20:16):
recourse other than defending himself on mainstream American television. When
he was being interviewed, whether it's cable TV or the
networks or even in print, he didn't really have much
of a choice other than to try to defend himself.
But you can't really go to war against the media.

(20:37):
And this is what Trump is probably learning right now,
and he understands now. If he didn't understand before he
went into office, he's understanding it now. You can't beat
the media. You can't meet the major media in this company,
it's a.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
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Speaker 6 (25:32):
R so al. But you mentioned how.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
The presol uh know, how they did a hatchet on
there on Gary Webb, kind of like the same way
they started questioning Michael Wolfe with the Fire.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
And Fury book. At first he was all accepted well
and stuff like that, but then towards the end they
started like criticizing a little thing, and then now he's
banished from the media. What do you make of that?

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Ah? Interesting, That's an interesting case because well you have
to look at bof Elf. Basically what he is is
in my view, you know, why of slang terms for
people and concepts and entities. Uh, he's basically what I
call a love him and be one reporter. What he

(26:14):
essentially does is seduce subjects. He wants to interview people
that he wants to books about, like he did with
Rupert Murdoch, sends them emails fuse him in praise, he
says a lot of nice things about him. Then he
gets that he gets to permission to shadow them, follow

(26:37):
them around. Uh, and then he puts the screws to
them once he writes the book. It's essentially what he
did with the Trump administration. In fact, it's absolute what
he did. But here's the thing about Wolf. Wolf was
granted access to the West Wing, so he had a
West Wing pass. So he's not just showing up with

(26:58):
either the temporary prest bridge those of the White House
or permanent ones. He's at the West Wing, so he's
watching people. He's cornering people to say, hey, I talk
to you, Can I have a few an interview, to
do an interview or whatever. And well, now that he
produces book, which was one of the first major look

(27:20):
at the Trump administration. Keep in mind this came out
what December last years ago, and so it was really
the first real picture of the administration that people would
get outside of the normal major news media but even
alternative media aspects. And the thing is that I think

(27:45):
that Wolfe's reputation has caught up with him. So he
was on everything on TV and probably podcast and radio
and who knowss. But after a point it began, I
think the reality of wolf just a by you began
to be manifest and I think people just kind of

(28:07):
realize that he's nothing more than an opportunist, A smart
op opportunist, no doubt, an opportunist. That's essentially what he
is now. Red Hire and Fury is entirely accurate, fully inaccurate.
I can't say absolutely, because I have not read the
entire book I comment on that absolutely, but I would

(28:29):
probably venture to argue that at least a minimum of
twenty five percent what little I have read, twenty five
percent of that has to be accurate. So it can't
be entirely fault with the story. He had to have
captured some some of the reality going on in that
in that White House. But I think his reputation caught
up with him.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Okay, and uh and back to web.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Because because his life was destroyed, can you can you
can you go into that and they're like, no, was
this just in the US? So was it also in
his personal life as well? Is this finances, we're attacking stuff.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Well, I mean basically they what happened was after this,
let me just backtrack a little and describe what I
call the counter offensive ENCOUNTERTECHKA. Basically, the media is the
major newspapers like The New York Times, the Washington Post. They
put reporters onto the web series and that subject and

(29:30):
basically to try to credit him, they morgated that. Essentially
they tight it, discredited him, uh and in essence disabled
the story to buddy it in the in the eyes
of the punk. The La Times had a team of
about nineteen reporters and they had called themselves. This is

(29:52):
according to Russ Grinn, who interviewed doc. I believe it
was the majority of reports. I'm theater show hasty, late
time orders on this team that was to beat the
look at web series and vic the web series called
them themselves to get very web teams. That's what they

(30:17):
informally dubbed themselves.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
LA Times had a major dog in the hunt because
The Times, I believe I actually interviewed Ricky Ross Freeway
Ricky Ross years ago and they were aware of this.
This actually wasn't entirely a new development. You know, I
think Robert Perry of associated president the investigation into the

(30:45):
sort of contra drug connection, and of course there was
a let me see, there was a there was a
set of investigation into the whole drug issue in regards
to this, the Contra affair, I think in eighty seven,

(31:06):
nineteen eighty seven. So it wasn't just something that was
just brand new out of the sky, or it seemed
by the way, probably in nineteen ninety six, there were
some nibbles here and there. But what happened was the
other times had gotten scooped by web. I mean, they
basically were shown up because here's this guy working for
not even one of the major newspapers in southern in California,

(31:28):
and he has this big story. I mean, this is
a gigantic story. Now, I don't know where you were
in nineteen ninety six. Were you on the West Coast?

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
No, in ninety six, I was living in New York, Okay.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
I was living in la in nineteen ninety six. This
is part of the reason that I looked into this
and I've examined it, because in a sense, it was
slightly personal to me. I was a young selancer and
a young journalist living in LA, working in LA and
I read web in the papers there. I was there

(32:03):
when all of that, when that series came out. So
for me it's personal because I was an LA resident
back then and it was I used the term insdiary
in my blog piece. Explosive is another term. I was
a gigantic story. If it was big back then in

(32:25):
nineteen nine six, that story came out today, it would
be even bigger. It'd be gigantic because it would be
not only in the mainstream but also on the Internet.
It technically was on the Internet back then in ninety six.
The INTERNETWEW is relatively new in regards to public consciousness.
But that's why I would have been even bigger today

(32:45):
in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
But do you think it would come out today? I
think we have more a suppression of the press in
mainstream press, at least soon, than we did back then.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Interesting, Why do you why do you think that scurious?

Speaker 6 (33:04):
You wrote a book, You wrote a story, a blog
about Megan Kelly, about about Sorry Megan Kelly.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Yeah, I wrote about Megan Kelly and her I think
her reporting or moving to NBC. I we're working about her,
but about moving to NBC and some of her reporting,
like she had started out by interviewing Vladimir Putin right,
which was a joke. I mean, he made mincemeat out

(33:32):
of her. I mean it was just embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Well, because I'm referring to her interview with James Ali Fontis, Well,
she didn't even ask him a single question. I just
brought him on the show and was his pr piece.
And where no matter what your feelings are about the
more serious allegations, just the most basic review of his
Instagram page and his online activity, and would if he

(34:00):
had a custody evaluation for his own kids in family court,
would lose custody of his own kids over his online
behavior and the comments and the remarks and and the
photos he had on his Instagram page. So and and
she just totally uh glosses over that.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
And it just gives this guy a pass. Weren't asking
him a single serious question.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Well, first and foremost, if you look at where Megan
Kelly is. I think she has a show on Sundays,
I believe. I don't know if he still does.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
I haven't watched anything with her in a long time.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
I don't, I don't, I don't watch that much TV.
I'm mostly an online guy, so if I see it
on YouTube or something. But I believe she had a
show on Sunday because I saw one episode of her
show that was along with Alex Jokes, which was an
answer this one. And that leads me to me. You know,
when you bring up Megan Kelly, that just demonstrates that

(34:55):
this woman's out of her debts. First of all, she's
not a real journalist. She's a lawyer, and she was
a lawyer that was interested in being a reporter. She
she didn't even get hired on the local news level.
She just got hired at Fox. And if you look
at her work at Fox, like most other reporters they're Fox,
She's not a real journalist and not a real reporter,

(35:16):
she's a propagandist, which is what most of those people
are there. I mean, someone like Sean Hannity is at
least honest. I mean he stated he's not a reporter,
which is pretty blatant obvious. But she's nothing more than
really an attorney pretending to be a reporter. So if
you look at her gig here at NBC or being

(35:38):
brought over for but ten million dollars or more, she
got to be a huge amount of money. I mean,
it's been a play a disaster and disaster. She's not
a real journalist. I mean Alex Jones, all people, I
mean Alex Jones jokers. You know, this is a guy
that I've written about in my blog. Alex Jones showed

(36:00):
her up. I mean what he did was just so
I just shot in my head. I know, did she
not realize who she was dealing with because he painked
her over the phone while she was basically trying to,
you know, smooth the waters. I mean, I understand what

(36:20):
she's trying to do. It's what journalists normally do when
you talk to someone about doing an interview. Oh yeah,
well this is what we're looking to do, and this,
that and the other thing. And Alex taked all that
and then and then played it before I think the
NBC Our NBC Show segment came out about her. I mean,

(36:44):
if if you want to see how far out of
depth this woman is, just I mean, I'm not inviting
people to go to InfoWars dot com, but if you
can see it on YouTube or whatever, check this out.
Because the woman basically got revealed to be what she
is and that is someone pretending to be a journalist,
or should I say, uh acting the role of journalists,

(37:06):
acting the royal reporter.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Okay, yeah, I just read the book A Show with
Alex Jones's ex wife, and that turned out to be a.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
She doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't know what
she's doing. I mean, you just noted it. She doesn't
know what she's doing. She wants you to pretend that
she knows what she's doing. She's not an unintelligent person,
but she's she's no reporter. No, she doesn't have the jobs.
It's it's pretty clear even for TV and TV news

(37:37):
to me is just basically what I call news entertainment.
It's a joke.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
And you said you wrote my Bias is a Bridge Journey. Yeah, yeah,
just a bit. Yeah. And you said you wrote a
story about a Stormy Daniels to what was that?

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, well that was about how the media steaks women,
And if you looked at that, for me, was about
you know, some of the misogyny, some of the sort
of blatant hatred for women, and more importantly, I think
women who have been in compromising situations with important men

(38:14):
or quote unquote important men. I don't consider forty five.
I don't even want to say his name. Forty five
that important. He thinks he's that important. I don't. But
if you look at the way she's been treated, I mean,
I actually saw a poll and this is part of
what inspired me to write the piece. I saw a

(38:35):
pole that stated the point start didn't even know her name,
the port start and the president, and I thought, how
is it you going to talk about something and not
even what this person's name. She's an individual with a name. Now,
she's a human being like all of us are, but
somehow she doesn't count because she's engaged in a rather

(39:01):
explicit line of work.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's it's interesting too that the other the playboy playing
at Karen McDougall, nobody even knows her name even at all,
and if it's like you know, they wouldn't even come
close to remembering that name or reporting that name. And
she actually had a relationship with with Trump went on
for months. We got to take another commercial break here
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N I E. R. So, Albert, we were talking about
Gary Webb.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
What is your conclusion? Do you think it was a suicide?

Speaker 4 (44:19):
I figured you would ask that question. Well, I'll put
it to you this way. Supposedly with two gunshots to
the head generally from my understanding of the suicide. But gunshot,
you would only need one, So why too, Just want

(44:44):
people to think about that.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
Well, you know, it looked that up. It is.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
It's not that uncommon for there to be two gunshots
in a suicide.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Well, but I'm saying it's not entirely in top but
it's still suspicious. Game. It would depend on what the
location of the gunshots would be. You know, if one
word flesh, okay, that's something. But generally speaking one should
do a job. So I would say it's fairly suspicious.

(45:18):
But that's all I can say at this point. It's
fairly suspicious, Okay.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
And when I talked to Freeway with Rick Ross, I'm
pretty sure that he felt it was a suicide.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Oh he did, Oh he told you that.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
In fact, everybody who I've talked to that that knew
one all agree.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
That it was a suicide.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
It was a suicide. I just say that I'm suspicious
of it. I can't say that it wasn't and I
can't say that it was.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
It's best to be.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
I take the kind of position of it. I'm determined
at this time.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
So any other recent new stories you've been writing about.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Well, well, I'm retired at this point, so I'm not
active in the trade. I do the an occasional op
ed piece on occasion for a local news cy called
Honolulu Civil Beat, and that's that depends. But no, I haven't.
I mean, the last thing that I wrote was about

(46:23):
Gary Webb is for It's my anniversary piece on my blog,
and I looked into how his career was destroyed, and
so I haven't really written anything outside of that.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Gotcha, Okay, so we're pretty much running out of time.
Is there anything you want to leave us with?

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Well, you know, that's a good point. I think one
of the things that I wanted to mention and make
clear was I think that the Gary Webb affair and
what happened to him is an object Listen. As I
mentioned earlier about what I call the invisible boundaries of
the news media, there's a lot that really isn't understood

(47:04):
by most people about the news media. In fact, most
people approach the news media from total indorance. They really
just don't understand it. And that's not unlike any other industry.
They don't want you to understand it. They don't want
you to be worst enough to understand what the news
business is about. And that's logically no other industry does, right.

(47:26):
I don't think the restaurant business wants people to know
what the restaurant, what the what the industry is really like,
nor would that be for agriculture. Agriculture know where that
be for any other industry, and the news business is
no different. There's a lot about the news business that
the average person really just doesn't understand, you know. And

(47:47):
I know that as somebody who's been an independent journalist,
there's been a freelancer, been a journalist for twenty two years,
you know. I know that, for example, that not every
article that's printed in newspaper is written by the person
who's given as the byeline. And I know this is
somebody who is ghost written newsaper articles. I haven't just

(48:10):
written my own articles, of which there're been you know
who knows plenty of them or whatever of them about
them the internet or elsewhere print. But I've also ghost written,
which I won't go into detail about. There are also
other other aspects of the media that are just really
not known by people, such as the fact that people

(48:35):
in the news media, which is nothing new, but people in
news media lie. I mean, one example of this is
what happened with what's her name, the New York Times
reporter Maggie Haberman, who was blatantly lied about to me,
I and Michelle Wolf and what she had joked about
Sarah Sanders, the secretary at the White House course respondent dinner.

(48:59):
That's granted, that's probably considered a you know, an important
lie in the grand scheme of things, But she blatantly
stated that this comedian had made fun of this woman's
looks and had put down her looks when she did
nothing of the sort. I mean, that's that is an
indication of what else people probably aren't aware of, or

(49:21):
what they assume but probably aren't aware of. In regards
to the news media Blayton lighting. I mean, I've seen
a little blatant lighting myself over the years. Maybe not
lots of it openly, but I've seen a little of it.
And so there's a lot that's really not known about
the news media, whether it's print, whether it's TV, radio,

(49:43):
and even online. And again, there are boundaries, there are
things that you can and can't do. Take the Gawker
case for example, the one with Peter Field and Hulkovid
that lawsuit. Gawker was a site that really had no
real standards in regards to journalism, and they just they

(50:04):
just were after people naming names and revealing secrets and
what have you, and they ultimately paid a price for
it because in the normative journalism world, whether it's regardless
of whether you're mainstream or independent, there's only so much
that you can write about or broadcast because editors and

(50:28):
publishers and owners won't allow you to do so. You know,
freedom of the press extends to those who want the press.
So that's something that people don't really understand about journalistic reporters.
They think we have the freedom to do what we want.
We don't.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Well, on that note, note Albert Lener, we're totally out
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E R.

Speaker 6 (50:56):
Thank you so much, thank you.

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We did.

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One was the Tiger Woods case. You know, I was
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(52:04):
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Speaker 6 (52:25):
That eventually.

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Speaker 6 (52:33):
All of these cases.

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is not really what's going on, you know, it's more
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(52:58):
just like they could flip a swing which and all
these different press outlets turn around and start sabotaging Gary Webb,
they can flip a switch and change a story around
and suddenly, well this is something we can't talk about anymore.
I could bring up stories that I was involved in
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(53:19):
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(53:40):
also noticed, especially since I started hosting a show and
now I'm booking guests, there's a lot of infiltration too,
with the publishing companies, the publishers who put these these
authors out and a lot of these authors who write
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Speaker 6 (53:56):
The stories are are cover stories, the actual stories.

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We just did a show with the James uh I
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Speaker 6 (54:09):
About JFK and Martin Luther King, and.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I forgot I was gonna I totally forgot what I
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that many of these these authors in these books. Oh no,
but he was talking about how Tom Hanks put out
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Post and about Charlie Wilson's War.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
And there was another one.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
I forget that that Tom Hanks has had done, and
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And it seems like that there's an official version of
the story that the powers that be want to get
out and they'll they'llt have they'll hire authors, and they
have publishing companies that will promote these authors and put

(54:57):
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Like we were talking about McMartin preschool, that that movie
that came out with James Woods, that was produced, by
the way, by Oliver Stone, you know, that was a
whitewasher of the McMartin case. So I've noticed this pattern,
okay of and behind the scenes, and I've experienced at firsthand,

(55:18):
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