The Killing Game Titelbild

The Killing Game

Selected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance

Reinhören
0,00 € - kostenlos hören
Aktiviere das kostenlose Probeabo mit der Option, monatlich flexibel zu pausieren oder zu kündigen.
Nach dem Probemonat bekommst du eine vielfältige Auswahl an Hörbüchern, Kinderhörspielen und Original Podcasts für 9,95 € pro Monat.
Wähle monatlich einen Titel aus dem Gesamtkatalog und behalte ihn.

The Killing Game

Von: Gary Webb, Eric Webb - editor
Gesprochen von: Kevin Stillwell
0,00 € - kostenlos hören

9,95 € pro Monat nach 30 Tagen. Monatlich kündbar.

Für 33,95 € kaufen

Für 33,95 € kaufen

Über diesen Titel

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.

©2011 Eric Webb. 2011 Foreword by Tom Loftus. 2011 Afterword by Robert Parry. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Medienwissenschaften Schreiben & Veröffentlichen Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Sprache, Vokabeln & Grammatik
Noch keine Rezensionen vorhanden