The Jeff Farias Show

Thursday, March 19 2009

At 3:30 Jason Leopold is the author of “News Junkie” editor for the online news magazine, Truthout.org, from 2004 to 2007. He has worked as the Los Angeles bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswire & as a city editor & reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He is a two-time winner of a Project Censored award for his investigative work on Halliburton & Enron, & is featured in the 2005 & 2007 editions of Censored: The News that Didn’t Make the News. He has written over 2,000 stories on the California energy crisis & received the Dow Jones Journalist of the Year Award in 2001. Leopold also reported extensively on Enron’s downfall & was the first journalist to land an interview with former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling following Enron’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001. He was a consultant on the Enron documentary, “The Smartest Guys in the Room.” His reporting has been cited in more than twenty books.

Leopold’s work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Salon, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, & numerous other national & international publications. Leopold has interviewed on more than 200 radio stations discussing politics & the state of mainstream American journalism. He appears weekly on KRXA radio in Monterey & is the United States correspondent for 95bFM in Auckland, New Zealand. He has also appeared on CNBC & National Public Radio as an expert on energy policy & has also been the keynote speaker at more than two-dozen energy industry conferences around the country. He regularly is invited to speak to college students across the country about ethics in journalism & investigative reporting.Jason’s work can be found here http://www.pubrecord.org/

At 4 PM Sofia, filmmaker behind 9/11 Mysteries Pt 1: Demolitions returns to discuss some new theories regarding 9/11. Sofia has two sites http://www.911weknow.com/ and for her work on chemtrails go to http://www.911weknow.com/about-the-sky

At 5 PM Fred Starner, banjo player, story teller, hobo, with a PhD in Economics joins us for music, stories and some enlightened perspective on the economic meltdown. Fred has been working on a The Hobo Documentary -THAT’s THE TICKET ROADHOG!- will have a version in a week. It includes Pete Seeger telling us of his experience riding the rails in 1940, playing in a bar to get money to get his camera out of hock in Topeka, about 10 songs, conversations, poems, and scenes on the rails. A 14 minute segment can be viewed at http://WWW.CINIWEB.COM, clic previews, look for THAT’s THE TICKET. Also Larry Penn’s song SINS OF THE FATHERS, and short with Seeger BASKET OF ROCKS.

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