In 1998, the leading Washington newspaper pulled a story on the targeting of my company by dark forces the night before it was to publish. The consequences to me were dire – even life threatening.
This was not the first experience I had with the politics of corporate media. During the Bush Administration, a very capable investigative reporter wrote a profile of me for the leading New York newspaper. As it was going to print, she got a call from the printers that the Washington bureau chief was changing it – fabrications were being added. She appealed to editors in New York. The story was pulled and she resigned.
My frustration with corporate media was far from personal. For many years in Washington, I had worked with the detailed budgets of federal money and credit that controlled the US mortgage markets. I watched the real policy decisions being hardwired in the budgets. What the Washington and national press described was an entirely different reality. I watched the fraudulent inducement of the American people in another housing bubble – engineered with the help of media. I watched the devastation of people around the world. I also watched honest, courageous reporters who tried to do something about it targeted, pushed out, even killed.
My experience in 1998 was the last straw. I would avoid corporate media. I would speak with people directly. I would answer questions I got by e-mail or letter or on talk shows. As I did, independent reporters and publishers started coming to me with questions about the financial system. As I answered, publishers asked me if they could publish my e-mails. The audience grew. I needed professional support. So I started the Solari Report in December 2008.
You might say that I and the Solari team backed into the media business. I was networking to live apart from the growing corruption, understand what was happening to responsible, hardworking people and to serve those who asked for our help to navigate and build wealth in the world as it really is.
That is what we do. This is who we are.
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