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number of friends I'm a little bit of the What's up another episode, Ripplefied podcast today, we've got author, best gay journalist,

and founder of who-what- why.com, a non-profit

news website where you can get up-to-date news on current events, historical events. He's really,

has quite the resume, Russ Baker. He's written for the New Yorker, New York Times, Vanity

Fear, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Esquire, and just tons of people. And he really

blurs the line between mainstream and alternative media because he's written and investigate a lot

of stories for mainstream media. But yet he's not afraid to go wherever these topics take them

or wherever these facts take them and not afraid of any topics where a lot of stories might be taboo or

mainstream media might not dig into them as much or at all and mostly because let's be honest

mainstream media has kind of become a joke with commercials really is the number one thing who

between segments those commercials whoever's putting those ads on there it's important one to

talk about whatever gets viewers watching if that means celebrity bullshit or if that means

Ebola or if that means Malaysia airplane speculation and no new information for weeks and weeks

just to you know and keep showing people this little headline this is breaking news so people tune in and they realize, holy shit, there's no breaking news. That's

important to keep those ratings high because the higher those ratings are, the more they can

sell that ad space between segments, those commercials. And obviously those guys who are paying

top dollar for that ad space also has a hand and what stories they hit or are the way to spin

certain stories they obviously don't want to say anything that would be bad for PR for any of those

companies so it's just you know it's just it's basically theater you know the game's kind of rigged

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