Gary Webb's Death: American Tragedy

This should be in the history books, but alas, the story of real American heros are often lost, if not out-right buried, along with the hero.

Robert Parry Gary Webb's Death: American Tragedy:

When Americans ask me what happened to the vaunted U.S. press corps over the past three decades - in the decline from its heyday of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers to its failure to challenge the Iraq WMD lies or to hold George W. Bush accountable - I often recall for them the story of Gary Webb.