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also: Don, Yarnold, David Yodel, David Yarnold
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having been moved to a prison in the city of Granada after Menendez hired someone to kill him. He had already had put in a request at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Interior to arrange an interview, George said. I think we can speak to both of …
▶ 29:34
While there has long been solid but ignored evidence of a CIA contra cocaine connection, no one has ever asked the question, where did all the cocaine come from? Now we know. He met with his editor, Don, and managing editor, David Yarnold, …
▶ 29:34
While there has long been solid but ignored evidence of a CIA contra cocaine connection, no one has ever asked the question, where did all the cocaine come from? Now we know. He met with his editor, Don, and managing editor, David Yarnold, …
▶ 30:02
and we spent an hour discussing the progress of the investigation and the series. Yarnold reread the project memo, shook his head, and grinned. This is one hell of a story. How soon do you think you can have it finished? I told him I needed…
▶ 7:30
They were ready to lay off hundreds of workers with obsolete job skills, having no intentions of doing so. Among the unethical corporations, my story noted prominently was the paper, San Jose Mercury News, which had used public funds to sub…
▶ 8:00
reaction to Dark Alliance, I was gratified but not surprised. They loved it. She was happy. They couldn't wait to get it in the paper. They thought it was important. Groundbreaking reporting. Congratulations. But there was one hitch. They t…
▶ 8:30
But the mercury, it was as if I was asking for the moon, a raise, a shower in my office, or an executive parking place. They're never going to go for four parts, Dawn warned. Yarnold told me I could have as much space as I needed, I reminde…
▶ 8:59
The problem was that the believability of the story hinged on the weight of the evidence. Every fact that was cut would make the story appear more speculative. For weeks, we went back and forth, and then I got word. David Yodel, the managin…
▶ 9:27
rearranging things, and resubmitted the series. Gee, Don said, the second part is kind of long. We need to cut it. This tug of war continued throughout the spring of 1996. She would cut paragraphs out. I would put them back in. We tried cre…
▶ 9:57
You've made your point. Let's try it again in the original four parts. I reassembled all the bits and pieces and resubmitted it. She read it, approved it, and sent it up the chain. Well, they like it, and Yarnell agreed that four parts is f…
▶ 11:55
cocaine cartels in the black neighborhoods in Los Angeles, a city now known as the crack capital of the world. The cocaine it brought into the U.S. fueled the crack explosion in urban America and the simultaneous rise to power of murderous …
▶ 12:24
The rest of the editing went fairly smoothly, and by July 26, 1996, the four-part series was done, edited, and ready for print. It was going to be printed August 18. Late one night, towards the end of July, the phone rang. Well, I have some…
▶ 12:53
The good news is that Paul Van Slambrock is the new editor, and I showed him the series today, and he likes it and thinks we've got a great story here. We've got a brand new editor on this, he asked, now? And he just read it for the first t…
▶ 13:23
or excuse me, Gary Webb laughed. Really? What kind of changes? He thinks it's too long. We need to make these, we need to make it a three-part series. Gary Webb laughed. You can't be serious, Don. This is a joke, right? No, I'm sorry. Maybe…
▶ 13:54
It wasn't the way he wanted to do things either, but he thought the series was terrific and he wanted very much to get it in the paper. Don said, you want to make some, so Gary Webb calls him and says, Don says you want to make some changes…
▶ 14:21
I sat down and fired off an angry memo to Don. Van Slambrock asked me to cut 65 inches. He had suggested that I needed to go through the story myself and be ruthless, and I'd be able to find 65 inches to cut, no problem. If there was 65 inc…
▶ 23:29
The wires and the switchboard at Mercury News lit up. This place is going crazy, Don reported. The web page had over 500,000 hits in one day. The Mercury News executive editor, Jerry Kepos, called and congratulated me. The TV networks were …