Jerry Seppes person
also: Jerry Kepos, Setpost, CEPOS
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But instead of launching their own investigations into whether the CIA had shielded drug traffickers, these papers went after Gary. Although they could not find a single factual error, as Gary's then editor at the Mercury News, Jerry Kepos,…
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It was under the radar. Mercury News executive editor Jerry Seppes would later tell Newsweek that he only read part of the story before it appeared in print, which was an amazing admission, if true. Perhaps my editors thought I was exaggera…
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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 …
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made it more difficult for them to report it. How could they come back 10 years later and admit everything that they had denied? In early October, I was in New York City getting ready for an appearance on the Montel Williams show, which was…
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I wrote, set post, a memo pointing out the holes in the post story. The pinkest piece I wrote, quote, is just silly. It's the kind of story you'd expect from someone who spent three weeks working on a story as opposed to 16 months, unquote.…
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but we did not go further and took pains to say that clearly, unquote. CEPOS posted the letter on the staff bulletin board along with the memo defending the series. We strongly support the conclusions the series drew and will until someone …
▶ 42:54
The Post's conclusions are very different, and I believe flawed, but the major facts aren't. I'm not sure how many of us could sustain such a microscopic examination of our work, and I believe Gary Webb deserves recognition for surviving un…