Issue Area: Contra/Crack


Extra Articles and Studies
20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

Weasel Words on Negroponte: Not (Update April 2005) By Peter Hart

Taking a Dive on Contra Crack: How the Mercury News caved in to the media establishment (March/April 2005) By Gary Webb

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Scandal? What Scandal?: Bush's Iran-Contra appointees are barely a story (September/October 2001) By Terry J. Allen

'Are You Sure You Want to Ruin Your Career?': Gary Webb's fate a warning to gutsy reporters (March/April 1998) By Barbara Bliss Osborn

Snow Job: The Establishment's Papers Do Damage Control for the CIA (January/February 1997) By Norman Solomon

Exposed: The Contra-Crack Connection (Update October 1996)

Iran-Contra: Sweep It Away (March 1993)

Nicaragua's Drug Connection Exposed as Hoax (July/August 1988)

Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel (March/April 1988)

Big Papers Give Drug Story Small Play: In These Times (8/5/87) By Jim Naureckas

Washington's Worst Kept Secret: The Contra Drug Connection (July 1987)

Action Alerts and Advisories
Reviving Cold War Reporting on Nicaragua (4/5/05)

Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record (2/22/05)

Time Magazine Ignores KLA Drug Charges: Are editors following Contra tradition? (5/17/99)