The Killing Game
The Writings of an Intripid Investigative Reporter
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall.
He was best known for his story “Dark Alliance,” written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-coca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583229323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583229329 |
| Author: | Gary Webb |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 534g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 223mm x 147mm |
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Critics Review
“A welcome addition for readers who followed the controversy surrounding Webb and for academic journalism collections.” –Library Journal
“Gary Webb [was] certainly one of the greatest investigative journalists of his time.” –Mark Warren, executive editor of Esquire
About The Author
Gary Webb
GARY WEBB (1955-2004) was an award-winning investigative reporter best known for his “Dark Alliance” series that linked a Northern California drug ring with the CIA and the United States’ burgeoning crack epidemic. When the story first appeared in 1996 on the website of the San Jose Mercury News, it became an unprecedented internet sensation. The report was the target of a famously vicious media backlash that ended his career as a mainstream journalist. When Webb told the whole story in the book Dark Alliance, some of the same publications that had vilified him retracted their criticism and praised his courage in telling the truth about one of the worst official abuses in our nation’s history. Others, including his own former newspaper and the New York Times, continued to treat him as an outlaw. Before joining the Mercury News, Webb cut his journalism teeth at the Kentucky Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is the co-recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Dark Alliance won the 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award in the Politics category, and was a finalist for the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. In 2014 Webb’s story was adapted into the major motion picture Kill the Messenger. His death in 2004 was ruled a suicide.
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