award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker

Why was created by long-time journalist, Russ Baker because, as he writes on the site, “the media gatekeepers, both 'mainstream' and 'alternative,' will not allow the biggest, most disturbing revelations to see the light of day.” That is precisely the fate that appears to have befallen the undeniably disturbing ...

After W. began recounting the story publicly, Billy Graham admitted to one journalist that he didn't remember the encounter. In 2006, Graham told two Time reporters who tried to jog his memory: “I don't remember what we talked about. There's not much of a beach there. Mostly rocks. Some people have ...

That's the story that my guest, investigative journalist Erin Banco, tells. Erin Banco is investigative reporter at The Star-Ledger and NJ.com. Her work focuses on the intersection of money and government. She's a former fellow with The New York Times, and the Middle East correspondent for International ...

But we thought you'd be interested in WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker's own discoveries on the tricks behind the scenes to rewrite history — including indications that a trap was laid for Rather and Mapes, with the goal of scaring all media off the investigative trail. Here, from his best-seller Family of Secrets, ...

"It is literally impossible that Lee Harvey Oswald was not all over government records," said Russ Baker, an investigative journalist and founder of the alternative news site WhoWhatWhy.com, which has a team of researchers poring over the newly released documents. "The simple fact there are hardly any ...

As prior Watergate excerpts from Family of Secrets have shown, there is every reason to distrust the accepted story of this seminal event. In fact, Watergate teaches us to be ... And we saw that certain mythic characters, like super-journalist Bob Woodward, were misrepresented. Below, we learn that another ...

And, finally, the acclaimed journalist, Bob Woodward, who, as we shall see in the excerpt below, is not exactly who he presents himself to be. Today, another deeply unpopular president is on the ropes. He must be hoping that — on top of the mountain of things he did do that could be his undoing — he ...

We are running this series because people are looking to Watergate as a guide from another time, when another president was on the ropes. And we are running it because, as is often the case, the media did not truly investigate what went on, or why. They, along with many historians, continue to ...

In this week's podcast, WhoWhatWhy editor-in-chief Russ Baker and journalist Matt Harvey, who wrote the story together with Jonathan Larsen, talk about the plot to create an “October Surprise” and those ..... I personally over the years have covered many of these things in my book Family of Secrets.

For a recent episode of the podcast Tim Dillon Is Going to Hell, Tim Dillon and co-host Ray Kump welcomed author and investigative journalist Russ Baker. It's a lively and enlightening 75 minutes, peppered with both serious anecdotes and humorous repartee. Like this: Dillon: Did you always want to be a ...

Baker is far from the only journalist, and WhoWhatWhy far from the only news organ, with the lofty ambition of exposing misdeeds and challenging the journalistic .... (Among the intra-chapter titles in Family of Secrets are “The Burning Bush,” “Hanky-Panky, Cuban Style,” and “Rove at First Sight.”) And while ...