Kill The Messenger: How The Cia's Crack-cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
by Nick Schou /
2014 / English / PDF
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Gary Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996
�Dark Alliance� series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine
connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his
resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by
the mainstream media. Author and investigative journalist Nick
Schou published numerous articles on the controversy and was the
only reporter to significantly advance Webb's stories.Drawing on
exhaustive research and highly personal interviews with Webb's
family, colleagues, supporters and critics, this book argues
convincingly that Webb's editors betrayed him, despite mounting
evidence that his stories were correct. By providing a probing
examination of the one of the most important media scandals in
recent memory, this book provides a gripping view of one of the
greatest tragedies in the annals of investigative journalism.
Gary Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996
�Dark Alliance� series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine
connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his
resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by
the mainstream media. Author and investigative journalist Nick
Schou published numerous articles on the controversy and was the
only reporter to significantly advance Webb's stories.Drawing on
exhaustive research and highly personal interviews with Webb's
family, colleagues, supporters and critics, this book argues
convincingly that Webb's editors betrayed him, despite mounting
evidence that his stories were correct. By providing a probing
examination of the one of the most important media scandals in
recent memory, this book provides a gripping view of one of the
greatest tragedies in the annals of investigative journalism.
