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Гэ́ри Уэбб — американский журналист, специализировавшийся на журналистских расследованиях. Лауреат Пулитцеровской премии.

Был известен прежде всего серией статей «Тёмный альянс», написанных в 1996 году для San Jose Mercury News и позже опубликованных в виде книги «Тёмный альянс: ЦРУ, контрас и крэковая эпидемия». Работа была посвящена причастности ЦРУ к торговле крэк-кокаином в США, осуществлявшейся в сотрудничестве с движением контрас в Никарагуа. В серии из трёх частей Уэбб расследует деятельность движения, которое при поддержке ЦРУ осуществляет контрабанду кокаина в США.

Погиб 10 декабря 2004 года при загадочных обстоятельствах от двух пулевых ранений в голову. Официальное расследование признало это самоубийством.

В 2014 году на основе биографической книги Ника Шу «Убить гонца: как крэк-кокаиновое разногласие ЦРУ уничтожило журналиста Гэри Уэбба» режиссёр Майкл Куэста снял художественный фильм о жизни журналиста «Убить гонца», где роль Уэбба исполнил Джереми Реннер. Wikipedia

✵ 31. Август 1955 – 10. Декабрь 2004

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“If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me … I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job … The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.”

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Gary Webb

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press.

“I do not believe -- and I have never believed -- that the crack cocaine explosion was a conscious CIA conspiracy, or anybody's conspiracy, to decimate black America. I've never believed that South Central Los Angeles was targeted by the U. S. government to become the crack capitol of the world. But that isn't to say that the CIA's hands or the U. S. government's hands are clean in this matter. Actually, far from it. After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U. S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.”

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Gary Webb

January 16, 1999, Eugene, Oregon. http://www.parascope.com/mx/articles/garywebb/notAConspiracy.wav

“Do we have a free press today? Sure we do. It’s free to report all the sex scandals it wants, all the stock market news we can handle, every new health fad that comes down the pike, and every celebrity marriage or divorce that happens. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—stories like Tailwind, the October Surprise, the El Mozote massacre, corporate corruption, or CIA involvement in drug trafficking—that’s where we begin to see the limits of our freedoms. In today’s media environment, sadly, such stories are not even open for discussion. Back in 1938, when fascism was sweeping Europe, legendary investigative reporter George Seldes observed that “it is possible to fool all the people all the time—when government and press cooperate.””

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Gary Webb

Unfortunately, we have reached that point.
Источник: Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press., p. 156