From the LA Times:
Reporter Gary Webb was the victim of his own hyperbole, but he never got credit for what he got right.
By Nick Schou
NICK SCHOU is an editor for OC Weekly. His book, Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb, will be published in October.
August 18, 2006
TEN YEARS AGO today, one of the most controversial news articles of the 1990s quietly appeared on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News. Titled "Dark Alliance," the headline ran beneath the provocative image of a man smoking crack
Your interviews with Webb were some of the best audio I’ve ever heard.
Your last conversation with him, in retrospect, sounded a little spooky, like the old black dog of suicidal depression and despair was finally catching up to him.
Regardless, from what I gather, very little if anything he reported was shown to be false, and much of it was later corroborated rather quietly by other professionals…and who else was it…John Kerry…?
oh it was only one interview. for some reason i thought you’d chatted with him twice. regardless, this was one hell of a good one, and chilling too.
You thought so because I replayed the show on RBN after he died. I feel bad about the part where I joked about how they destroyed him over it and he didn’t think it was funny. It was a suicide, but they murdered him just the same.