Mexican Media Silence

For NPR’s On the Media, I recorded this interview with Ana Arana, who leads a project on investigative journalism here. They studied media coverage of the drug war in northern Mexico, and found that a startling amount of drug-related murders are never even reported in the news. Fear, manipulation, bribes, saturation, fatigue, capacity, danger. It all plays a part to create a pretty impossible media landscape for our brave Mexican colleagues up north. Listen above.