Hero Or Zero

Gary Webb, was he a journalist hero, or a journalist zero? I believe that he was a journalist hero, but I also believe that he did a few things in his personal life that he could have done better. I believe that Gary Webb uncovered a lot of things that our government was hiding. Yes, not a lot of people believed Gary Webb because he was just a small journalist from a small newspaper company. Why would people from across the country believe him? Is he very reliable, does he have the credibility like the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times for a story of this magnitude? Maybe not, but all those people at these big named newspaper companies were too worried about ruining their reputation or losing their job, but not Gary Webb. Like I said before, he worked for the little company called the San Jose Mercury News. He did not have much of a reputation than right there in San Jose. When he decided to start writing this story and researching the story, he was going all over the world, just so he could find out the truth on what happened with this whole ordeal. He traveled to South Central, California, to New York, Washington D.C., Nicaragua, and I am sure there were countless of other places he went. He talked to just about anyone and everyone he could that was involved and got his story. Granted that yes his sources were not very credible because who is going to believe a bunch of convicted drug dealers about what is going on in our nation’s government. The government realized that Gary Webb was about to figure out the truth, so they decided to start saying things weren’t true, that his work is invalid, and that he is making it all up with no proof. Typical is it not of our government to lie to its own people. They started messing with his head and things started happening to him, things like his bike getting stolen, they started telling people about what happened between him, his wife and another woman in Cleveland. But, did Gary Webb ever give up? No, and that’s why I think he is a journalist hero. He took it upon himself to go out there in the dangerous world to fight against the government and to finally get the truth. I think that there needs to be more people like him in this world.