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How crazy & scary is this? Mexican Drug Gang attack a TV News station. Read on & then give your thoughts->?

Mexico Media on High Alert After Drug-Gang Attack on Televisa

Editors at Televisa, the world’s most popular Spanish-language network, were having a lively news meeting in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey when they heard a series of pops followed by a thunderous explosion. Running outside, the editors realized the top breaking news item had come straight to them. The pops were bullets sprayed from Kalashnikov automatic rifles directly into the faÇade of their offices. The blast was from a fragmentation grenade. Next to the debris was a message scrawled on cardboard: "Stop just broadcasting us. Also broadcast the narco politicians," it said.

The Jan. 6 assault on Televisa’s offices was the latest in a series of attacks on Mexico’s media as the nation writhes in an orgy of drug-related bloodshed. Out of a record 5,300 deaths from beheadings, assassinations and massacres last year, eight of them were murdered Mexican journalists, making Mexico the most dangerous country for their trade in the hemisphere. Furthermore, many reporters in cities on the front lines of the drug war say they are systematically threatened, beaten and offered bribes because of their coverage of organized crime. (See pictures of the war on crime in Mexico City.)

But even by such appalling standards, the Televisa attack stood out in the way the assailants so blatantly tried to dictate the coverage of Mexico’s television giant, which is probably the most powerful media organization south of the Rio Grande. Earning about 75% of Mexico’s broadcast advertising, Televisa has long had an overwhelming influence on the nation’s political life. Presidents, lobbyists and rising politicians all fight hard for space on its nightly noticiero, which regularly breaks leading stories. "Televisa has the equivalent political clout of ABC, NBC and CBS combined," says Mexican media investigator Raul Trejo. "When the narcos threaten this organization, they are showing they see no limits in their power.

This is the link to the whole article if you want to read it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599187151600

Won’t be visiting there very soon!