It digs deeper into what Webb broke ground on undoing the damage that started with the media turning its back on a story too hot for it to handle ending with the death of a career and later a great reporter. “Freeway: Crack in the System” takes the feature film, “Kill the Messenger” to the next level-a very intimate one-as only a documentary can. That voice was silenced just 15 days later and would stay silent for 10 years. I was a reporter for a local paper and listening to him talk about breaking a story so big that the fallout ultimately ruined his career-but not his spirit-revealed the determination he still had to tell his story. I remember the 80s well and the growing war on drugs that I would not know the true depth of until I met Gary Webb on Thanksgiving Day in 2004. A native “Angelino,” I grew up in the Hollywood hills and started my first business less than 5 miles away from one of the most notorious parts of the city-South Central Los Angeles.
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