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Saturday, December 18, 2004
What I Was Trying to Do... with Too Much of Nothing was take the Gary Webb story out of inner-city L.A. and suggest how it also touched kids in the suburbs. The ocean of cocaine lapping into Los Angeles in the 1980s not only fueled a crack epidemic; some of it would have trickled into outlying towns resembling Calaveras Beach.
None of my critics have pointed that out, so I figured I should.
Anyway, Matt Welch has a fine rant about Webb and his treatment by pampered celebrity journalists like Howard Kurtz:
If there is one mainstream-journalism trait that I truly despise, and won't ever forgive, it's the knee-jerk condemnation of reporters -- especially freelancers and other castoffs -- who conduct lengthy investigations showing that the government did something worse than polite society can currently contemplate. And here's a page with useful links for anyone who has no idea what I'm babbling about.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
5:54 PM
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