ICYMI: How to move hundreds of cynical reporters to tears. Mexican journalist Marcela Turati gave the keynote address at the Investigative Reporters and Editors annual conference in San Antonio last Saturday, telling attendees about reporters killed by drug cartels, "discarded in the street" like trash, and others who are abducted, tortured, and sometimes killed. She spoke of the dangers of reporting on drug trafficking in Mexico, where "too many (journalists) are resigned to the fact that death is their destiny." "A reporter told me how one night someone called to tell him that a commando squad had taken his colleague. He got up from the bed, got dressed, said goodbye to his wife, kissed his children, and sat down in the living room; waiting to be taken away. It was the longest night of his life. “Why didn’t you run?” I asked, surprised. “Where could I run?” he said. “My only wish was to stop them entering my house and taking me in front of my family. I didn’t want my family to remember me with that image.” He survived, but his friend was found the next day, his body discarded in the street, as if he were trash."
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 02:18:39 +0000
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