-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.narconews.com/letters1000.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.narconews.com/letters1000.html">Gary Webb Speaks on Narco News</A> ----- Letter-to-the-Publisher October 23, 2000 Gary Webb Speaks Al: A friend emailed me your latest piece on Peter McFarren and the APME's non-response to your perfectly legitimate questions. I was amused to see my contretemps with Jerry Ceppos cited in your article. One minor correction: though I'm sure I spend enough time in the library to qualify as one, I am not actually a librarian. I do research for the California Assembly and am still doing investigative journalism as a freelancer. It may either depress or delight you to know, if you don't already, that the Society for Professional Journalists gave Ceppos its first Ethics In Journalism award for his "clarification" of my series. That should give you a good idea of the prevailing definition of ethics in the upper reaches of American journalism, and perhaps may explain why he sees so little to get excited about with McFarren. Great story. Keep on keeping on. Gary Webb Publisher Responds: Gary: It's an honor to hear from you. That the mercenary "parajournalists" continue to feel it necessary to attack your 1996 Dark Alliance reports on official US involvement in cocaine trafficking is testimony to the continuing power of your work. Most recently, the PBS Frontline series on the drug war misfired against you again: an inadvertent admission that what then-editor of the San José Mercury News Jerry Ceppos and others did to you beforehand was not sufficient to erase the basic facts of your story. Your reporting gave birth to The Story That Will Not Go Away. And you know more than anyone how hard they have tried to wash the truth like so many narco-dollars in the US banks that hold the mortgages on major media outlets. History will remember Gary Webb as the Authentic Journalist who blew the whistle on the hypocritical drug war and was persecuted unjustly for it. History will remember your attackers as the roustabout linebacking wound-up mechanical clones of the deteriorating reign of false journalism who comforted and comfortable as they afflicted the afflicted. What Jerry Ceppos and his ilk do is not journalism, not by a longshot. The public understands that already. We at The Narco News Bulletin are glad to hear from you and are pleased that you are still reporting. We offer our pages to you and your fine work anytime you wish to publish here. >From somewhere in a country called América, un fuerte abrazo, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
