Based on a true story

Even as we sat there at the table swathed in crisp white linen, I recognized it for the cinematic moment that it was. And now that I’ve seen the movie, I wish the film-makers had asked me about it. They never did. In 1996, I was the Washington correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News, part of a chain of newspapers whose D.C. bureau was housed in the National Press Building. Our paper was riding high on a big story. It was the talk of the town. And its author, Gary Webb, was there to promote his journalistic blockbuster.

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