So many journalists have been killed in Mexico this year that a newspaper is shutting down.
There was the freelance writer, slain at a car wash.
Then, the columnist that was shot twice as he left a restaurant with his wife and son.
And on March 23rd, a 54‑year‑old journalist and mother of three was fatally shot eight times outside her home while she was in her car with one of her children.
A rolled‑up piece of cardboard was left with a chilling reason for the crime: "being a tattletale."
Three Mexican journalists were killed last month in an "unprecedented" wave of violence against the press. The job of a journalist has become so dangerous in the nation that one Mexican newspaper owner has decided he is no longer willing to take on the risk.
In a front‑page letter published today with the massive headline "Adios!" the editor of the newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez, announced it would be ending its print publication as a result of the ongoing violence against journalists, killings that often go unpunished.
Source: stuff.co
