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You asked me to find any information on Gretchen Nicolosi, rogue
journalist.Federated authorities' publicly-accessible files on Nicolosi are sketchy. Many have been classified by the Central Security Agency. Her birthplace was an East District Consumption Center, traditionally a place for the disaffected and poverty-stricken. However, her parents' names are not publicly recorded, possibly indicating they remain loyal to the FSA or at least don't want to be involved in Nicolosi's work. Gretchen attended corporate-state sponsored education but left after contact with a disloyal travelling book distributor named Douglas Courtland. She disappeared and never completed formal schooling, although clearly she became educated in some way.
The FSA's public profile states she is "obsessed with overthrowing" the FSA. She has never made any public statement that I can find outlining her goals.
Interestingly, while the Central Security Agency lists her as a treasonous revolutionary, offering a bounty for her capture or for information leading to her capture, LABRA-Political lists her only as a "person of interest." and indicates where information can be sent.
Nicolosi's first clash with Federated media regulatory authorities came when she released a report simultaneously at a half-dozen central OpNet distribution hubs, not a mean feat of computer manipulation. The report was relatively well-produced on African technology.
In sum, the reports detail the conflict between a team of Aesculapian doctors (not all psions) and a corporate-backed insurance conglomerate, the McNally Insurance Group. An Aesculapian clinic in Pierre, South Dakota, in the Central District, was effectively getting low-income, high-cost "health care consumers" off the cycle of debt, credit and medical bills that McNally (in cooperation with Federated authorities - although the link was not meticulously documented) had promoted and organized.
McNally used radical (and even one particularly vile) anti-psion groups to close down the clinic and expel the Aesculapians. Perhaps the most effective piece of the report (at least the piece most replicated by offshore rebellion OpNet sites) is the skewering of a middle management lackey for McNally, a man named Daniel Smith, who was far to eager to explain his role in the squeeze-out and his lack of fear of retribution from Federated authorities. As it turned out, Smith was largely used as a scapegoat by McNally, although they did change their practices.
Over the next two years, Nicolosi produced four more major stories and three minor ones for unauthorized release, each garnering a good deal of attention. All four dealt with malfeasance in corporate or political governance. She has never targetted the military. She has undertaken investigations throughout the East District, the South District, and the Central District, but does not have any particular pattern to her movements. Nicolosi must also have access to a top-flight OpNet hacker, because her reports are very well-distributed and protected.
In one of those stories, regarding censorship by an overzealous Media Review Board in the TexMex District, she mentioned your documentaries (and showed a clip from Shotgun Wave) as being one of several artists whose work has slid past some Media Review Boards despite pressure.
