Is NarcoNews.com a bogus source?

[whatelseisnew]

www.narconews.com

not allowed in DU LBN forum

[Annces]

1. Many DUers were using it as a resource during the Mexican elections

So a few people were trusting it.

[Demit]

2. I'm pretty sure it's a totally legit media outlet. Been around awhile. nt

[whatelseisnew]

5. I had thought so but it seems disallowed in DU LBN forum

maybe it was a newbie moderator's mistake

[htuttle]

3. It is an extremely good news source

Al Giordano has been working with journalists, both veteran and fledgling, in Latin America for a long time.

I think it originally was named 'narconews' due to the Iran/Contra/Cocaine connections they were following up on, but has since broadened to cover Latin America in general.

[leftchick]

6. do you know why

it is not considered appropriate for LBN?

[whatelseisnew]

8. It used to be allowed there, rules changed?

?

[leftchick]

11. apparently not anymore

this was moved and it is an Important Story!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2387832&mesg_id=2387832

[file83]

12. Well, that story wasn't "Late Breaking News"...I'm pretty sure that's why.

The story, at least what was quoted in the OP, was about subject matter from 2005. The rules for LBN are pretty strict. Even though the article just came out, that doesn't make it news that is "Late Breaking". That's just my guess.

[leftchick]

13. I didn't notice that

phew. I have hope again. :)

[CottonBear]

4. It's an excellent source. I have it bookmarked. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

7. Here's a Boston Phoenix story on NarcoNews:

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/01285285.htm


Good stuff that gives you a good view of the site.

[whatelseisnew]

9. Here is the story that just got booted out of LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2387832

House of Death informant fingers Mexican, U.S. governments
http://www.narconews.com /

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/12/23833/369


By Bill Conroy,
The House of Death informant Guillermo Ramirez Peyro on Aug. 11, 2005, provided testimony, under oath, as part of his deportation removal proceedings before a U.S. Immigration court in Bloomington, Minn.
Narco News just obtained a copy of the transcript of that testimony, which can only be described as startling in parts and puzzling on other fronts.
But it is important to share some of the highlights of that testimony now, so you, kind readers, can put together a few more pieces of the House of Death puzzle.
The case, for those who might be new to Narco News’ coverage of this bloody mystery, involves the torture and murder, between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, of up to a dozen people in a house in Juarez, Mexico, at the hands of narco-traffickers associated with the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes crime organization. Present for many of those murders, and participating in carrying them out by any reasonable standard of moral complicity, was an informant, Ramirez Peyro, who was under the watch of U.S. federal agents and
prosecutors.
-----snip----

[whatelseisnew]

10. Thanks to everyone who replied

msm?

[file83]

14. It's a great news source...

...the subject matter just wasn't "Late Breaking News".

[pinto]

15. Locking.

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