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Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout
An anonymous reader writes "An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war. Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story. Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police."
So, what else shall we make legal because it costs too much to enforce, is too hard to enforce, and we can't stop it anyhow? Drunk driving? Rape? Murder?
You know, to build a mosque on every corner and install Gay Muslim Socialist Kenyan Ayatollahs who are going to come and round up your daughters^H^H^H sons for their harem - and take all your guns?
Beats me. You think "making a best effort to disseminate facts" was an easily understood mission, but since the mainstream media hasn't tried to do that for years*, everybody seems to have forgotten what it means.
* - *koff* Iraq *koff* Afghanistan
you had me at #!