Posted on 12/06/2008 6:39:41 PM PST by BAW
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As the photographer pulled his 2000 Ford Explorer into a soccer field, the crackle of his police scanner was broken by a lone accordion riff.
The riff, a fragment of a "narcocorrido" glorifying drug smugglers, was an announcement that the death toll in Mexico's drug war – already above 4,000 this year – had just risen.
Hector Dayer already knew that as he looked out at the seven bodies, bound, beaten and repeatedly shot. What he didn't know was whether yet another colleague was among the victims.
Two weeks earlier, Dayer had photographed a friend – a veteran crime reporter from a rival newspaper – shot dead in his car as his 8-year-old daughter sat shaking in the passenger's seat.
On this day, none of the bodies belonged to journalists. Dayer grabbed his camera, pulled up the collar of his jacket to hide his face, and stepped out to photograph the carnage.
"We should wear ski masks, like the police," said Dayer, a father of two who works for the newspaper El Norte. "We are so public. Everyone can see us and identify us."
Mexico is the deadliest place in the Americas to be a journalist, and among the deadliest in the world. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 24 have been killed since 2000, and seven have vanished in the past three years.
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A good start.
Dead presstitutes tell no (more) lies.
Good thing the degenerate and feckless MSM is keeping the U.S.A. informed of the war at its southern screen door.
Perhaps a “guest worker” program...aww never mind.
“Dead presstitutes tell no (more) lies.”
That’s a fact, something the MSM has trouble reconizing, (facts that is).
I have a tough time feeling any sympathy for MSM’ers in danger. The MSM has put America in danger.
Even if they were legal, it would still happen.
What the presstitutes don’t realize, is that even though they do everything humanly possible to hide the truth and make the terrorists and our nation’s enemies look good, the enemy will turn on them without a second thought. A few have learned that the hard way the last few years. It’s tragic that the MSM has no allegiance to America and chooses to be “facilitastors” instead of just truthfully reporting the news.
Why do you think so?
Send the LIBERAL media there to cover it.
If they were legal, people all over the globe could make their own in small quantities. Too many, too low value targets to be worth any kingpin’s time. (Not that I really fundamentally disagree with killing what passes as “journalists” these days.)
Hmmmm, maybe I haven’t given this drug war thing enough credit....
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