Kill the Messenger
How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
September 2006
Trade Paperback · 278 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN · £8.99 U.K. · €10.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781560259305
Nation Books
Trade Paperback · 278 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN · £8.99 U.K. · €10.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781560259305
Nation Books
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Description
This is the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. It was his 1996 Dark Alliance series—published by the San Jose Mercury News—on the so-called CIA/crack cocaine connection that 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 was the only reporter to significantly advance Webb's expose. Drawing on exhaustive research and personal interviews with Webb's family, colleagues, and both supporters and critics, Kill the Messenger argues convincingly that Webb's editors betrayed him despite mounting evidence that his stories were correct. Schou examines what Webb's death and Dark Alliance's aftermath says about journalism in America.
Nick Schou writes for the LA Weekly and OC Weekly and lives in Long Beach, California.
Author and investigative journalist Nick Schou was the only reporter to significantly advance Webb's expose. Drawing on exhaustive research and personal interviews with Webb's family, colleagues, and both supporters and critics, Kill the Messenger argues convincingly that Webb's editors betrayed him despite mounting evidence that his stories were correct. Schou examines what Webb's death and Dark Alliance's aftermath says about journalism in America.
Nick Schou writes for the LA Weekly and OC Weekly and lives in Long Beach, California.
About the Authors
Nick Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist with OC Weekly who has also written for LA Weekly , the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Washington City Paper. He is the author of Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World (Thomas Dunne, 2010) and The Weed Runners: Travels With the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade (Chicago Review Press, 2013). He lives in Long Beach, CA.