10 July 2012
Staging the War on Drugs: Media and Organised Crime in Mexico
Newspaper Stand in Mexico
The steep upsurge in the number of drug‐related homicides in Mexico has led to a greater increase in the news coverage of violence and organized crime. Both journalists and scholars have overlooked how organized crime makes use of the media and vice-versa. By drawing on previous research on the relationship between the media, terrorism and public opinion, this paper looks into the rise of mass‐mediated organized crime in Mexico.
© 2012 Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies
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Edgar Moreno Gómez
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2012
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