Self Censorship is Not Preventative Action: Mexican Journalists Respond (Part 2 of 2)

“Narco-traffickers, the professional killers, executors (or sicarios) and their bosses like to be considered heroes, like those they see in their favorite action movie… They want their messages across the news to say one thing: they are the most powerful, the strongest and merciless.” In the second part of our series on “narco-censorship” in Mexico,…

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Mexican Journalists Respond to “Narco-Censorship” and Citizen Journalism (Part 1 of 2)

Is citizen journalism a clever response to Mexican drug violence? Looking past the hype, our Mexican field staff isn’t convinced. “There is still a very desperate need for really trustworthy alternative [information] sources,” says one. Earlier this month, the Associated Press published a piece profiling Blog Del Narco, a news blog integrating crowd-sourcing principles to…

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