By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The murderous ways of the Mexican drug cartels may seem very scary, but so is another phenomena: The cartels are apparently shutting up the media.
The Washington Post reports journalists, fearing for their lives, “are adhering to a near-complete news blackout, under strict orders of drug smuggling organizations and their enforcers, who dictate — via daily telephone calls, e-mails and news releases — what can and cannot be printed or aired.
“We are under their complete control,” a veteran reporter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Post.
Very scary.
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