Below is a letter that I e-mailed to the letters page of the LA Times commenting upon an opinion piece by OC Weekly editor Nick Schou this Friday August 18, 2006 about the Gary Webb "Dark Alliance" story.

The recent piece by Nick Schou regarding the shameful treatment of Gary Webb by his supposed media collegues after he uncovered another example of this nation's out-of-control & capricious intelligence apperatus is long overdue and too little, too late. Schou's piece aimed at the proper targets, the alledged news media that went into a Fox News like spin fury to discredit a story that they were scooped on and who's petulant ire was on display for all who cared to watch. Among those was L.A. Times Managing Editor Leo Wolinsky (whom was quoted at the end of the piece). Wolinsky appeared on the Channel 13 News as the story gained mainstream traction, obstensibly to discuss the story. Prodded by sympathetic and teleprompted news models posing as anchor people, Wolinsky proceeded to savage the entire story as not even worthy of journalism. That Wolinsky now utters supposedly sympathetic words in support of Webb without a mea culpa for his role in the Webb witch hunt is disengenious at best, certainly hypocritical, and sadly reflective of how degradged the state of American jouralism is at present.

Nate Wunderman
www.vibrationsfromtheblackhole.blogspot.com
Santa Monica