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It's really good to see Webb's story reaching a broader audience. I imagine the current generation may never even have heard of it. For those interested in fur

It's really good to see Webb's story reaching a broader audience. I imagine the current generation may never even have heard of it. For those interested in further reading, Narco News[1] has been an invaluable resource over the years continuing on with muckraking reporting on the drug trade. They broke two big stories over the years with Banamex and with the "house of death" in Ciudad Juarez. Kudos to Al Giordano and others who have carried on exposing the players behind the trade in the spirit of Webb. [1] http://www.narconews.com/ http://www.narconews.com/

gragas 10y ago
Why is that page covered in seemingly unrelated anti-Trump propaganda? What does alleged white supremacy have to do with the narcotics trade?
- iamjeff 10y ago
  NarcoNews and Narcosphere (and Giordano) are unrepentantly activist in both tone and aspiration. I think it would be a great disservice to label the outfit(s) as anti-Trump; there is a lot of thoughtful criticism of Sanders, Hillary, Obama, and left-wing movements in both sites. As for intersection between narcotics and politics, note that NarcoNews is perhaps best known for its coverage of the reach of narcodollars in the politics of LatAm and corporate motivation behind the War on Drugs. The pages are littered with this sort of coverage (in fact, it is mainly how they started out).
rurban 10y ago
But it didn't reach a broader audience. Nobody reads books (2006), that's why they made a movie "Kill The Messenger" (2014). But the movie had a horrible US release despite its huge starpower, was successful only internationally and won some prices on US festivals. It opened on 427 screens (medium), had good reviews and stayed 2 weeks big, but gathered only 2.5M USD. That's a horrible number with that many screens and a 5M budget. An explanation would be the complete lack of advertising by the producers Focus Pictures. It was buried. There was a private petition to re-release the movie after several weeks of silence, which gained huge momentum, and was quite a controversy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)#Controversy_over_film_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)... - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3

gragas 10y ago

Why is that page covered in seemingly unrelated anti-Trump propaganda? What does alleged white supremacy have to do with the narcotics trade?

iamjeff 10y ago
NarcoNews and Narcosphere (and Giordano) are unrepentantly activist in both tone and aspiration. I think it would be a great disservice to label the outfit(s) as anti-Trump; there is a lot of thoughtful criticism of Sanders, Hillary, Obama, and left-wing movements in both sites. As for intersection between narcotics and politics, note that NarcoNews is perhaps best known for its coverage of the reach of narcodollars in the politics of LatAm and corporate motivation behind the War on Drugs. The pages are littered with this sort of coverage (in fact, it is mainly how they started out).

rurban 10y ago

But it didn't reach a broader audience. Nobody reads books (2006), that's why they made a movie "Kill The Messenger" (2014). But the movie had a horrible US release despite its huge starpower, was successful only internationally and won some prices on US festivals. It opened on 427 screens (medium), had good reviews and stayed 2 weeks big, but gathered only 2.5M USD. That's a horrible number with that many screens and a 5M budget. An explanation would be the complete lack of advertising by the producers Focus Pictures. It was buried. There was a private petition to re-release the movie after several weeks of silence, which gained huge momentum, and was quite a controversy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)#Controversy_over_film_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)... - http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3