The Killing Game Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance

by Webb, Gary; Webb, Eric; Loftus, Tom; Parry, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781583229323
• ISBN10: 1583229329
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-03
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall. He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State's negligent medical board, and on the US military's funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life's work outside of Dark Alliance, and it's an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.

Author Biography

Gary Webb (1955-2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist best known for Dark Alliance. (See full bio, pages 379-80.) Eric Webb is Gary Webbs youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now a journalism student in Northern California.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
PublisherÆs Note	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
The Coal Connection (1980)	p. 1
I Create Life (1983)	p. 119
Doctoring the Truth (1985)	p. 139
Caltrans Ignored Elevated Freeway Safety (1989)	p. 243
Good Cop Bad Cop: The thin blue line (1990)	p. 251
DWB (Driving while Black) (1999)	p. 265
Sex and the Internet (2001)	p. 287
The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays on (2004)	p. 305
The Arnold (2004)	p. 323
The Killing Game (2004)	p. 329
Red Light, Green Cash (2004)	p. 343
Afterword	p. 355
Acknowledgment	p. 377
About the Author and Editor	p. 379
About the Contributors	p. 380
About Seven Stories Press	p. 382
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