The result is a media
landscape across Mexico in which federal and state officials routinely dictate
the news, telling outlets what they should — and should not — report, according
to dozens of interviews with executives, editors and reporters. Hard-hitting
stories are often softened, squashed or put off indefinitely, if they get
reported at all. Two-thirds of Mexican journalists admit to censoring
themselves.
Azam Ahmed
Running a newspaper, radio station or television outlet in Mexico usually means relying on a single, powerful client that spends exorbitant sums on advertising with a simple warning: “I do not pay you to criticize me.”
That client is the government of Mexico.
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration has spent hundreds of
millions of dollars a year in government money on advertising, creating what
many Mexican media owners, executives and journalists call a presidential
branding juggernaut capable of suppressing investigative articles, directing
front pages and intimidating newsrooms that challenge it(...)
Azam Ahmed – 25.12.2017.
IN New York Times.
