This is an interesting piece about a Mexican drug news blog run by an anonymous student.
“For the scanty details that they (mass media) put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped,” the blogger said. “We publish everything. Imagine what they could do to us.”
Of course, since he posts information he gets directly from drug cartels, he gets a tsk-tsk from a journalist:
“Media outlets have social responsibilities and have to serve the public,” said Carlos Lauria, of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. “This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. He is doing it without any ethical considerations.”
I’m sure Lauria’s committee is a good bunch of people who do good work, but I think we can all do without the journalism lectures from self-appointed gatekeepers.