| ISBN: 978-1-57454-012-3 $22.95 | ||
| 1997/159 pages Distributed for the North-South Center Press | ||
The book features frank, first-hand accounts of overt subsidies, pay-offs, and news-as-advertising budgets that keep most Mexican dailies dependent on government support; pressures on Mexican journalists covering the Chiapas uprising, political assassinations, and the presidential campaign of 1994; and changing methods of government coercion and co-opting of the news media before and after the Salinas administration. The authors also explore the financial and political interests of the strong-willed government loyalist who controls Mexican television news and the growing Mexican influence on Spanish-language news broadcasting in the United States.
The outgrowth of a two-year investigative project by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), this study reveals a disturbing pattern of violence against journalists outside the capital city and includes brief CPJ case histories of a dozen Mexican reporters who were murdered in mysterious circumstances over the past ten years.
"A nuanced assessment of the threats still faced by Mexican journalists, especially in the provinces, and of the corruption of much of the mainstream media."—Jonathan Fox, Latin American Research Review
"This pioneering report reveals a pattern of violence against journalists
outside the capital and includes brief histories of 11 Mexican reporters who
were killed in mysterious circumstances over the past 10 years.... A timely
and valuable book on a long-taboo topic."—Foreign Affairs