Mexico Journalists Sign Narco-Violence Coverage Pact

What is it that they say about strength and numbers?
40 Mexican media groups that represent more than 700 newspapers, television and radio stations gathered for what looked like a very formal ceremony yesterday to sign an agreement to a set of guidelines concerning their coverage of “criminal violence” in Mexico.
This is unprecedented in two ways. First, it had never been done before because, frankly, it was never needed in the past. And second, it flies in the face of the intimidation, threats and murder that journalists and communications professionals in general have been subject to.
While drug wars rage across Mexico little if anything has been reported in the Mexican media for fear of extreme reprisals – even government officials have been reluctant to admit to the drug cartel siege of many Mexican cities (but that in itself is not so hard to believe). This compact could be a watershed, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that coverage of the drug wars will change.

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