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Little attempt is evident of any vetting of sources, leaving open the possibility that drug criminals or those sympathetic to them may be submitting content. There are detailed descriptions of murders, as well as photographs and even videos of victims as they are being executed.
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The gruesome content is not edited according to any apparent journalistic standards. It is precisely the kind of coverage the media agreement was intended to discourage. That reality, according to Blog del Narco, is the depiction of the horror of the drug war in Mexico’s streets: decapitated bodies, bullet-ridden vehicles surrounded by pools of blood, and other images of gory crime scenes. It adds that “a key factor for the birth of Blog del Narco has been what many media organizations have been trying to hide: the terror that Mexican society faces, a reality that until recently was kept in the shadows.” In their place, independent journalists and bloggers have stepped in to fill the coverage gap, attempting to report and photograph the drug wars in a way that is no longer reported in the established media.Īmong them, there is one that has taken the leading role in documenting and reporting the news and events related to cartel violence in the most unfiltered, raw manner: Blog del Narco.īlog del Narco was started in March 2010 “with the intention of informing about what really happens in Mexico,” according to the About Us page on the site. Other points limit the publication of gruesome images and discourage reports that tend to glorify drug cartel leaders.
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The 10-point pact seeks to improve protection for journalists, including the omission of bylines on some stories. This article is part of the Digital Freedom and Corol Project produced exclusively for the World Policy Journal by students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.Īs Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for traditional journalists to practice their craft, blogs have become a major source of information, often of uncertain reliability, on Mexico’s drug wars.Īccording to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, 66 journalists have been murdered between 20 as victims of the country’s drug wars, and many news organizations have been attacked with gunfire and even bombs in an attempt to silence the press.Īs a result coverage of drug-related crime has decreased, especially after the signing of an agreement March 24 by dozens of Mexican news organizations,including the country’s main television networks, to set guidelines for coverage.