----- Original Message ----- From: "Consortiumnews.com" <Consortiumnews at lb.bcentral.com> To: "List Member" <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: U.S. Journalism's Shameful Anniversary
One year ago, reporter Gary Webb took his own life, but his tragic fate was set in motion years earlier when major U.S. newspapers helped destroy his career by trashing his work on the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine scandal. Even when the CIA's inspector general revealed that the scandal had been worse than even Webb had described, Big Media refused to correct the record, instead letting Webb's life unravel. Then, after his suicide, the contra-cocaine cover-up and the smears of Webb continued.
For the full story of this shameful chapter in the history of U.S. journalism, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com .