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Neocon Group Calls for Military Strikes on Media
 Jeremy Scahill
Without those un-embedded journalists willing to risk their lives to place themselves on the other side of the barrel of the tank or the gun or under the air strikes, history would be written almost entirely from the vantage point of powerful militaries.
Death Row Foes See Newsroom Cuts as Blow
 Tim Arango
Opponents of the death penalty looking to exonerate wrongly accused prisoners say their efforts have been hobbled by the dwindling size of America’s newsrooms, and particularly the disappearance of investigative reporting at many regional papers.
U.S. Poets in Mexico Second Annual Event in Mérida
 Sheila Lanham
From January 2-9 2010, U.S. Poets in Mexico will once again host distinguished contemporary American and Mexican poets in the colonial city of Merida for one week of poetry workshops, readings, Spanish lessons and day trips.
Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies
 Brad Stone
Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it.
Failing to Deliver the News
 Martin Schram
As we lament the fact that our newspapers are either on the skids or on the blocks, America's two most famous - The New York Times and Washington Post - just showed us again that they are often great but not always good
 Anti-Mexican Media Hysteria Makes Life More Dangerous for Latinos in the U.S.
 Leslie Savan
Mexicans have recently been the prime target of the most rancid typecasting in the media - can more racist violence be far behind?
The American Press on Suicide Watch
 Frank Rich
If you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq).
White House Says No Newspaper Bailouts
 Agence France-Presse
The White House expressed "concern" and "sadness" on Monday over the state of the ailing US newspaper industry, but made it clear that a government bailout was not in the cards.
Rumors, Speculation and Fear: San Miguel de Allende Copes with the Spread of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Flu Virus
 Jan Baumgartner
To date, there are no confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in the entire state of Guanajuato. But you would never know that by the air of growing concern, masked faces, and government mandated closings that has this otherwise bustling town still, and eerily quiet.
I Went to Mexico and Came Back Flu-Free
 Valerie Streit
I thought I had escaped the daily grind of the 24-hour news business when I went on a weeklong vacation in Mexico with my mom and a friend. I did get the sun (burn) and relaxation - but I also got a side dish of anxiety that I don't remember ordering.
Blaming ‘Media Hype’ for Swine Flu Fears
 Robert Mackey
This past week has presented the world’s news media with a conundrum: How loudly should a responsible person shout (or whisper) “Possible Fire!” in a crowded theater?
Reporting on Swine Flu Direct from Mexico - Part 2
 Margo Jodyne Dills
Is the World Health Organization using Homeland Security's Operation Manual? From the point of view in Puerto Vallarta, where living normally ground to a halt sometime this week, it appeared as if the entire world has gone mad.
The Ignorance of Liberals
 Jay Ambrose
Liberal commentators were recently having a great, big if indignant chuckle at the expense of all those tea party yo-yos who didn't get it that President Obama had a tax cut in mind for them, and that, hey, it was conservatism that brewed the current mess.
Reporting on Swine Flu Direct from Mexico
 Margo Jodyne Dills
On CNN you can find videos telling you how to avoid swine flu. In many areas of Mexico schools are closed. So are restaurants, nightclubs, bars and other public venues, including churches. This is occurring even in cities where there have been no cases of swine flu reported. Let’s not panic, shall we?
Fox News Bias for the Rich?
 The Real News Network
This week, Fox News showed a factually false Republican talking point about the so-called "death tax" and then showed no Democratic response and no correction of the Republican falsehood.
Self-Publishing Comes Into Its Own
 David Lyons
Self-publishing is not just an end in itself, but increasingly provides a stepping stone to the world of traditional publishing. The self-published author who aspires to the 'big leagues' can make it by proving there is a market for his work.
Chronicler of Oaxaca Struggle Finds Himself in a Lead Role
 Mari Hayman
For the last two years, Gustavo Vilchis has been documenting a movement he believes could grow into the next Mexican Revolution. After the government’s brutal crackdown on a teacher’s strike in Oaxaca in 2006, he traveled to the region to photograph the hundreds of thousands of angry Oaxacans protesting the state’s repressive tactics.
Getting a Death Grip on Memory
 Norman Solomon
A headline in The New York Times announced a few days ago: "Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory." This news ran above the fold on the front page. Big deal. American media outlets have been pulling off such feats for a long time.
Lupita Checking Out: Day of the Dead & The Scorpion Queen
 Jan Baumgartner
Not even the sound of Mariachis serenading a wedding posada along her street got her to run up to the roof terrace where before, she would breathe in the lively music and the energy of the revelers following close behind, their laughing faces only watery memories of how life once felt...
A Political Agnostic and Damned Proud of It
 Doug Thompson
Anytime Capitol Hill Blue runs an opinion column by anyone right of center, I get bombarded with email from outraged liberals who want to know why in the hell I'm allowing such heresy on this web site.
Novel Ideas: Where Do They Come From?
 David Lyons
You're here and settled in. Puerto Vallarta is all you had hoped it would be and more. You're ready to write, but what? If there is a moment of terror in the mainly passive exercise of creative writing, it's staring at that first blank page...
Media Coverage of Violence in Mexico 'Unfair'
 Kenneth Kiesnoski
Travel Weekly hosted an emergency webcast Thursday to address agent and consumer concerns about tourism to Mexico in light of negative media coverage of escalated drug-related violence south of the border and a recent U.S. State Department travel alert about the country.
Write, Publish, and Sell Your Book in Puerto Vallarta
 David Lyons
The idea of settling down in a tropical paradise to write that novel inside you has been the dream of many for generations. Every year, people arrive in Puerto Vallarta for an extended vacation with that same goal in mind - to write that book.
Watchdog: Press Freedom Deteriorated in Americas
 Associated Press
Freedom of the press has deteriorated in the Americas, with Mexico among the most dangerous countries in the region to be a journalist, the Inter American Press Association said Monday.
Mexican Media Protest Crime Photographer's Killing
 Natalia Parra
Mexican journalists demanded an investigation Monday into the death of a crime photographer gunned down while riding his motorcycle to an assignment.
Pentagon Clashes with Media Over Control of Information
 Chris Tomlinson
The black-and-white video starts with a mini-van locked in the crosshairs and the sound of a missile launching. A ball of fire suddenly consumes the van and a palm grove somewhere in Iraq. Critics say the purpose of such violent material is not to inform the public about what the military is doing, but to promote it.
Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist
 Jonathan Hutson
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico's investigation into the shooting death of American video-journalist Brad Will has presented a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR's conclusive findings, including the discovery that one of the bullets was a ricochet.
Dean of Latin American Foreign Correspondents Dies in Mexico
 Latin American Herald Tribune
U.S. journalist Eloy Aguilar, president of the Foreign Correspondents' Association in Mexico and a longtime bureau chief for the Associated Press, died of an apparent heart attack in this capital, sources close to the journalist said. He was 72.
Mexican Journalist Released from US Custody
 James Rainey & Ari B. Bloomekatz
U.S. immigration authorities surprised press-freedom activists Thursday when they released a journalist - fleeing alleged Mexican government persecution - who had been held in a Texas detention center for seven months.
Police Arrest Mexican Editor Facing Lawsuits for Publishing Information about Corruption Allegations
 Newswatch
Miguel Badillo Cruz, editor of Contralínea and Fortuna magazines, was arrested by police near his home in Mexico City on the morning of January 16, the Centro de Periodismo y Etica Publica (CEPET) has reported.
Times' Mexico Savior the Real Shady Slim
 Paul Tharp
Eighteen months before Carlos Slim, the controversial Mexican billionaire, decided to ride to the rescue of The New York Times empire, a story on the $60 billion man ran in the Gray Lady. It called him a "robber baron" and a "crony" of Mexico's notoriously corrupt politicians. He's now their savior.
Stiff Sentence in Colombian Journalist's Murder
 Libardo Cardona
A Colombian judge has sentenced a former mayor to 28 years in prison for ordering the April 2003 killing of a journalist who had repeatedly denounced the politician as corrupt.
Self-Censorship, Exile or Certain Death: The Choice Faced by Journalists in Ciudad Juárez
 Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders and the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET), a Mexico City-based press freedom organisation, are today releasing the results of a joint fact-finding visit to the northern border city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Win a Trip You Won’t Forget
 New York Times
Win a Trip With Nicholas Kristof, 2009: The columnist invites students to enter a contest for a reporting trip to Africa this spring. Second prize is two trips.
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