- No, it wasn't sloppy reporting in the original bulletin
- even though several major news outlets took it upon themselves to change
the story from one shot to two.
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- Gary Webb - chief architect of the exposure of the
Reagan-Bush
White House-sanctioned cocaine importation ring which fueled the
devastating
crack epidemic of the 1980s - died, in fact, from TWO shots to the head
by a .38 caliber pistol.
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- Excerpt from the story:
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- Coroner Robert Lyons said his office had been swamped
with calls. "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots,"
he said, "but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a
distinct
possibility."
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- Full article:
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- http://sacbee.com/content/news
- /story/11772749p-12657577c.html
-
- Reasons given for the suicide?
-
- Webb had sold his house because he couldn't afford his
mortgage, someone had recently stolen his motorcycle, and he had
effectively
been blackballed from ever working at a major newspaper again - unfairly
by the way.
-
- That's about as plausible to me as the two shots coming
from his own hand.
-
- In spite of character assassination on the part of the
San Jose Mercury, the LA Times and other newspapers (including the
particularly
vicious Sharon Rosenhause of the now deservedly-defunct San Francisco
Examiner),
no one has ever disproved or even credibly disputed a single fact from
his Contra-Crack reportage.
-
- We will probably never know for sure who killed Gary
Webb, but his death is the final death of any remaining shred of
credibility
or decency inf the US news media.
-
- If you're still reading the US news media for 'news'
as opposed to getting a line on the latest propaganda or disinformation
campaign, I humbly submit your IQ should be recalculated several points
- down.
-
- - Brasscheck
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