Idolator

I rarely comment here, but I'm dying to know if I'm alone in my utter shock at how Phillips' actions here, and for the past decade, in covering this story haven't raised more eyebrows.

I haven't followed the Biggie/Tupac saga as closely as some, but it seems that for years Phillips was aggressively trying to convince the world that the Suge Knight-led cabal of Bloods/Rogue LAPD officers named as the Tupac/Biggie killers in Randall Sullivan's book "LAbryinth" had nothing to do with either murder --this, against all logic, reason and tons of mounting evidence.

To me, it seemed the only possible reasons for Phillips' coverage were due to:

a) Some inexplicable need to be contrarain.

b) Threats by Suge or his camp

or c) A payoff from Suge to circulate these counter theories about how everyone and their mother was involved in the two murders other than him.

Also, it seemed like after Violetta Wallace won her lawsuit against the LAPD, that Phillips was given a long leave -- I didn't seen his byline for a while and assumed that he'd been put out to pasture for what was his suspiciously innacurrate reporting of those cases (something effectively confirmed by the court's ruling in favor of Wallace).

Now that Suge seems like a diminished threat/issue, Phillips is still trying - perhaps to salvage his damaged reputation - to pin these crimes on someone else, to the point that he tried to flog the fantastic claims of a well-documented attention seeking nut.

Again, that's just my vague sense of it. Am I wrong? And if not, shouldn't media critics and the Wallace/Shakur estates be calling for some kind of investigation as to Phillips' real motives for all this damaging and clearly fraudulent reporting?

I dunno, maybe I'm just missing something here.

Personally I think it's really suspect that the FBI called off the stake out/follow of Biggie 2 hours before he died.