Dismissed as a Drug Crime? How Mexico’s “Old” Media Covered Ruben Espinosa’s Death
Dismissed as a Drug Crime? How Mexico’s “Old” Media Covered Ruben Espinosa’s Death
Reactions to the death of a prominent photojournalist reveal much about old versus new media in Mexico
Hours after photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and four others were found dead in a Mexico City apartment on July 31, much of Mexico’s traditional media had settled on a theory: This was a run-of-the-mill drug crime.
In a video newscast titled “They didn’t kill him because he was a journalist,” Luis Cárdenas López, a reporter for MVS, a radio news juggernaut, declared the true target of the attack was a Colombian woman whose body was found along with Espinosa and the other three victims.
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