ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Gary Webb

Gary Webb was a journalist who wrote about some bad things that were going on with some important people. He found out that these people were allowing drugs into the country and making lots of money from it.

He wrote a really important story about this and lots of people read it. Some of the people he wrote about were really angry that he wrote about them and they tried to make him look like he was lying. They said that he was wrong and that he didn't have all the facts.

Even though he showed lots of evidence, people didn't believe him and he lost his job. He felt really sad and lost because he wanted people to know the truth.

Years later, people started to look back at what he wrote and they realized that he was right all along. They saw that the people he wrote about were actually doing bad things and making lots of money from it.

People started to realize that Gary Webb was a brave journalist who wanted to tell the truth, even if it wasn't popular. Now lots of people remember him as someone who tried to make the world a better place by telling the truth.