On the Anniversary of Reporter Gary Webb's Suicide, a Colleague Pays His Annual Tribute

Author and former AP-Newsweek reporter Robert Parry clocks in at his venerable ConsortiumNews.com investigative site with a long, provocative piece about the way he and deceased colleague Gary Webb were thrown under the proverbial media bus for their leading-edge Iran Contra reporting. Today marks the sixth anniversary of Webb’s Sacramento suicide.

Parry makes a point of revisiting the topic on each and every anniversary of his colleague’s tragic death, but says he can make no more sense of it all today  than he could in 2004.

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