Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb

Narrated by:
Richard Ferrone

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
13
Narrator
3
Release Date
September 2014
Duration
7 hours 31 minutes
Summary
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.
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Gitane S.

This was SO disappointing!! Gary Webb is an heroic figure in the annals of modern journalism and the work he did in exposing the CIA-Contra connection is invaluable. The narrator is just horrible-a total egotist who brings a very narrow perspective to this story and has one 9f of the most boring delivery styles since your junior high algebra teacher If I had to hear him say "A good editor would have saved "Dark Alliance" once more, I would have given this whole self serving mess a minus zero rating The fact that the fearless investigative reporting of Gary Webb led to the Iran-Contra hearings is completely glossed over and it is also obvious that the author never bothered to interview Freeway Ricky Ross who played a very important role in the introduction and distribution of Crack cocaine and was not afraid to talk about it So sad that this wasn't worth the time spent listening to it

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Anonymous

Our federal government was mixed up with drug running. And the reporter that exposes this gets blackballed . A sad story.

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