By Gretchen Garrity
Yesterday, David Rice and myself spent some time with Tom Martz of the Locke and Smith Foundation, a non-partisan
constitutional organization that keeps track of our Missouri legislature.
Martz, a local talk radio host on KSGF 104.1 who was filling in for Nick Reed, was interested in local independent journalism. You can listen to the show HERE. It's in two parts, with the first part (dated 12/26/25) beginning about 20 minutes in.
As an illustration of how bankrupt and useless corporate media is, watch how a young man busted wide open the fraud in Minnesota. As Martenson says, "This can only mean they [media] are complicit in covering up fraud as long as it's being done by 'their team."
Exactly correct. My hope is that young journalists will push back on the indoctrination they are inevitably confronted with in journalism school. Expose it! It would make a great story and it might just help to reform the fetid mess in journalism. Seek truth and not a journalistic tribal narrative. There are lots of great independent journalists out there like Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal.
It's quite telling that a 23-year-old in a hoodie did what every major news organization in the US could not manage to do: Real investigative journalism. This can only mean they are complicit in covering up fraud as long as it's being done by 'their team.' https://t.co/uhGURDda1C
— Chris Martenson (@chrismartenson) December 27, 2025