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Friday, June 24, 2005
"DARK ALLIANCE" IS BACK
ONLINE. The groundbreaking 1996 series by Gary
Webb, who committed suicide
last December, reported on the connection between the CIA, the
Nicaraguan contras, and the explosion of crack in the United
States.
Now NarcoNews.com is
uploading
the entire series to the
Web. According to Narco News's Dan Feder, the entire website put
together by the San Jose Mercury News was recently discovered
on a CD-ROM by Webb's family.
"Dark Alliance" was a landmark of
Internet journalism, with people around the country and even the
world logging onto the Mercury's website to read it. The
grotesque overreaction by the mainstream media to what were some
fairly minor flaws in Webb's reporting (not to mention the
Mercury's gutlessness in throwing Webb over the side) helped
form the current critique of corporate journalism by activists on the
left.
Congratulations to Narco News and
its founder, my former Phoenix colleague Al Giordano, for
getting Webb's work back in circulation.
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Just asking:
Doesn't the San Jose Mercury News own the copyright to the Dark Alliance package?
Isn't that an issue?
Todd - An excellent question! We may soon learn the answer.
Ahh...
Something of value. A tip of the hat to Al; best wishes.
Ah yes, the CIA-crack cocaine connection. Great read. Make sure your tin-foil hat doesn't slip over your eyes - you won't want to miss a word!
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