After I read this I realized American journalists are cowards.

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You listen to them whine about how they might lose their jobs or how the government could wreck their careers. COWARDS

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican journalist Francisco Arratia used to tap out daily columns sounding off against the drug traffickers and corrupt cops that blighted his home city on the U.S. border.

When the cartel enforcers came for him, they spread his palms out wide and shattered his fingers with a hammer-like blow. Then they poured acid into the wounds and pummeled him until his heart stopped beating.


The newspaper columnist from Matamoros, south of Brownsville, Texas, was one of three Mexican journalists murdered along the U.S.-Mexico border last year amid a surge in drug-related violence. (snip)




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&ncid=572&e=3&u=/nm/20050213/lf_nm/mexico_journalists_dc

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1. true, but perhaps this isn't the best way to change their minds?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Could you imagine the control BushCo would have over the media then?

Now all he does is manipulate careers and pad palms and he owns them. If he actually sent them off a special Abu Ghraib for unruly reporters where they could be, "cleansed" you wouldn't even hear the occasional dissent that you do now.