Study: Organized Crime Greater Threat to Media than Repressive Political Regimes
According to Reporters Without Borders, organized crime poses a greater threat to the media than repressive political regimes. In the past ten years, 141 journalists worldwide have died as a result of violence by organized gangs.
"Mafia organizations and criminal cartels are the greatest threat to global media freedom", according to a study by Reporters Without Borders, according to the SDA news agency. The persecution of journalists by organized gangs is at its worst in Mexico. There alone, 69 journalists have been killed in the past decade and eleven more are missing.
At the same time, the study points to the media's problems in properly uncovering the evil of organized crime. It is a powerful parallel economy with enormous influence. Not least in view of the dangers, the media are content with merely "superficial reporting". Instead of revealing the background to the threats, the media sometimes limit themselves to merely disseminating mutual accusations from rival gangs and information from official sources.
