Collateral Damage: U.S. Press Fails at Covering Mexican Peers

U.S. Press Fails at Covering Mexican Peers — Texas-Mexico Border | The Texas Tribune: "Though successful in covering the gruesome aspects of the cartel-related carnage in Mexico, the U.S. press falls short in exposing the muzzling of its Mexican counterparts at the hands of organized crime. That blunt assertion comes from Ricardo Trotti, director of press freedom at the Inter American Press Association.

“They are not covering the news on how the Mexican press is being hit and you need [the coverage] to pressure the Mexican government. They need to pressure the government [on] its lack of reforms,” he said Monday in El Paso, where reporters and editors from the U.S. and Latin America gathered at the University of Texas at El Paso for a two-day summit, “News in the Line of Fire.” The event was sponsored by the American Society of News Editors, the IAPA and UTEP." Dec. 7. 2010