Of course they also acknowledge the authorship, even if they rarely provide links to original sources.Īnd unlike el Blog del Narco, I also assume that they pay a fee or have a shared arrangement. It! On one hand, many Mexican news outlets routinely reprint and report other sourcesĪnd reprint columnists who have published in other papers and magazines. I think that the first two reasons I suggested are much more convincing reasons for doing things on the fly. Most charitably, I might be willing to accept that Lucy and el Blog del Narco didn't allocate the time to take that final step of verifying links- but I do admit that this is not a convincing argument in her defense. Adding the references and the links to the items was the most time consuming and problematic part of those posts.
And I can testify that there is a lot of work involved in tracking links and making certain they are correct and are working. I can personally testify to the fact that undertaking to collect so many regional reports and news items and converting them to formats to post is both time consuming and tedious. I also classified articles into categories such as Human Rights Violations, Corruption, Los Zetas etc. Originally, I posted information to this blog site by scanning articles daily and posting a short description of the news a link back to the original source. The third reason that el Blog del Narco might have left out links is much more mundane. We are happy when our blogs and notices are watched, and we don't worry that they might be watched by people who are capable of hurting us or a family. It is true that the fact of monitoring by narcos doesn't directly answer the question of why el Blog del Narco doesn't cite sources, but it does illustrate clearly that journalists and bloggers in Mexico are operating under a different set of conditions than we do on our side of the Rio Bravo and the Mexican border. We may find it difficult to believe that this level of monitoring or direct pressure happens, but the reality is that it does. And of course, it is also 100% likely that she has received stories and information directly from one DTO or another. The number of hits that el Blog del Narco receives makes Lucy a very likely target for warnings and threats.
I've been told directly about phone calls from narcos made directly to the authors of an article that appeared in obscure blogs warning them to be careful. Second, there is concrete evidence that the larger cartels are really monitoring the news and the internet! They ARE monitoring what appears in print and online.
#Blog del narco original code
Basically, the argument here is that el Blog del Narco appears in a climate of clear and imminent threat and the code for reporting crime and violence is ambiguous and amorphous as a stream of water or a murky pond. Trained journalists understand this code and recognize the danger, and they are always aware of how far they can go in reporting a story. We should recognize that Lucy la bloguera is operating in a climate and a context where everyone does think twice about what they say in public, and they are even more cautious about what they put into words. Those threats, whether specific or generalized, can come from anywhere- narcos, politicians, police and the army. But clearly, the warnings also take concrete form - News outlets have been routinely bombed, reporters have disappeared, reporters are murdered, and direct warnings are regularly conveyed to anyone who posts reports about crime and corruption that criminals and others do not want to see in print. Implied threats can carry more weight and be even more frightening than direct confrontations. In northwest Mexico, even the slang code word to warn of impending danger, - " agua ", is as vague and indirect as most threats. Warnings and threats are not always blatant in-your-face encounters, but frequently rely on implied danger and harmful consequences. When a threat is generalized and vague it must taken seriously in Mexico. First, there a very real climate of fear surrounding the publication of any narco-news and direct threats to publishers (mainstream and informal) are well documented.
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