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Title: The Killing Game
Subtitle: Selected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance
Author: Gary Webb, Eric Webb (editor)
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-24-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's 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.
Members Reviews:
There was once a thing called journalism
Gary Webb died for our sins.
The stories and opinions in this book reflect a long lost treasure embedded in our Constitution. The press is the only private enterprise so honored. Its role is to protect our democracy from corruption, stupidity and greed. Reporters like Webb did that job, and paid for it.
Gary Webb died because he couldn't stomach the ugly truth that his reporting revealed. Not the corruption, stupidity and greed of government - that was no surprise to anyone who was paying attention. Webb discovered that the constitutionally ensconced press was itself corrupt, stupid and greedy.
Webb's most important story is the one that cost him his career, and ultimately everything else he had or would ever have. That story, by the way, has been confirmed as accurate with each subsequent release of declassified information.
The corrupt, stupid and greedy people who subverted democratic institutions throughout the world have, in Malcolm Ex's words, come home to roost.
If we wish to restore a functioning, democratic government to our country, we must be willing to stand up and fight for it. Not with bombs or guns, but with the truth.
Outlaws and PoliticiansNatural Bedfellows
Gary Webb was one of the last great investigative journalists. He didnt wait for Wikileaks or Snowden to drop a story in his lap. He sniffed out trouble like a bloodhound. Through relentless research, and a disarming charm, Webb again and again dug up the real dirt.
What Webb found under the shiny surface in America was more corrupt, more fetid, more bathed in blood than even David Lynch could imagine.
This audiobook opens with The Coal Connection, a nearly unbelievable look at exotic international financial swindling that involved every kind of low-life, from petty crooks to future-president Reagan.
