The Middletown Toxic Cover-Up

The True Story of the Student Journalists Who Exposed a Poisoned New York Town

von Nathan J. Whitlock

154 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1991, a Middletown, New York, high school teacher handed his students video cameras and a single assignment: find out what was really happening at the landfills outside town. Over the next six years, that student journalism program uncovered illegal toxic dumping, organized-crime-linked carting companies, and a pattern of official indifference that had let the poisoning continue for years.This book tells the full story of the investigation: the teacher who trusted teenagers with a real assignment, the students who conducted it, the officials and companies it implicated, and what actually happened once the cameras started rolling. Drawing on public records, contemporary press coverage, and the participants' own later accounts, it names precisely what was proven, what was alleged, and what remains disputed, since several of the central figures are still living private citizens.Clear, carefully sourced, and honest about the limits of a story still being told by the people who lived it, this is the real history behind one of American journalism's most unlikely investigative teams.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175703642
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published