she resolved to turn her wanderlust into a journalism career. she wanted to get more experience but also cover stories she cared about. you need to get out and go somewhere where you can get a break. i m looking further out to the horizon. how far? one of the most dangerous places in the world. what other stories are out there that i feel passionate about? at the top of my list was somalia. amanda knew she had to tell her mother about her plans. and you re thinking what? i would really rather she didn t go. do you think maybe you were to yourselves mom s word headstrong? yeah, and i don t think i had spent enough time thinking about what would happen if something did go wrong. soon enough she would find out. on the plane to mogadishu she remembers a fellow passenger turning to her and her colleague
so then you know, there was this whole other thing going on all the while. this love story behind the scenes. and we have for the very first time an exclusive on camera interview with the bloomberg journalist who fell for pharma bro christie smythe. as we sat down and talked about their relationship she described about meeting him in person for the first time when she broke the story of his arrest he got out and met in person. she said, you know, i also felt that he was maybe using me. he was was manipulating me and lying but then she saw a different side of him in that first conversation. as she started to cover him going through those months and years, that was when she started to realize she was having feelings. didn t actually realize it until much later. listen, this is a woman who had a very solid journalism career at bloomberg. was married had a beautiful brown stone. she was living this perfect life and decided to just kind of push it all aside to have this
communities and that is what darnellla frazier did. she walks by the scene of derek chauvin and those three officers kneeling on george floyd. after she s able to get her younger cousin in cup foods, she doubles back. she at that time was the loan witness to what she was seeing and what does she do, she pulls out her cell phone and begins to document that, to bear witness to what she saw was an injustice. she didn t know george floyd but what she saw as she testified earlier this year was that she saw somebody suffering. she saw somebody in pain and she knew it wasn t right. so certainly as journalists and as somebody who s long covered racism as part of my journalism career, what she did absolutely felt like it was within the tenants of our profession and so it was certainly encouraging to see the pulitzer board bestow her with not only this recognition but also the cash prize that goes with this honor.
and like you said, clearly bruises on his wrists. one of the things that really stuck out to me is not only is he refuting essentially everything that he s worked hard for over the past several years, what he s done with his journalism career. it s the way he s done it, it s this very kind of strange pro-government language, something you might see on state media. and one of the quotes is like, he admitted that he organized the massive protests that popped up last year. as you recall, there was that presidential election in belarus that the opposition likely won. that s what started all of this. he was instrumental in kind of publicizing the massive examples of regime excess, regime abuse against protesters. and he s now saying that he regrets doing all of that, he regrets badmouthing alexander lukashenko, the president, for example, and says even now respects lukashenko. this was all couched and packaged in what was ostensibly,
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