Mexican Newspaper's New Ombudsman: Drug Cartels

If you're ever feeling depressed about the decline of newspapers in America, just be thankful you're not in Mexico—where a newspaper's been reduced to politely asking drug cartels for editorial guidance, in exchange for not being murdered.

El Diario de Juarez, the biggest paper in Ciudad Juarez, has had two employees assassinated this year. Yesterday, the paper ran a front-page editorial essentially asking drug gangs for censorship guidelines.


Jesus Christ that's sad. Not that we're blaming them; most Mexican papers in their position already gave up on serious crime reporting long ago. But god damn.

[AP via Romenesko]