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Kill the Messenger
How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
Author: Charles Bowden, Ray Chase, Nick Schou
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HighBridge
Published: 09/09/2014
Synopsis
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.