In Mexico, a hard-hitting journalist is getting her wings clipped, again - LA Times
3-13-15
Carmen Aristegui may be Mexico's most famous journalist — and her bosses are clipping her wings
Are the moves by a Mexican radio station meant to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists?
She is sort of a cross between Christiane Amanpour (let
us hope not that bad) and a dog with a bone. Carmen Aristegui is possibly
Mexico's most famous journalist, very courageous and often annoying. She hosts
an enormously popular four-hour daily radio program and has a nightly talk-show
gig on the Spanish-language service of CNN.
And now, she is in trouble.
Again.
Aristegui has clashed with the corporate bosses who
own her radio station and for at least the third time in recent years has faced
being off the air at least temporarily.
This time her bosses, without consulting her, she
says, fired two key members of her investigative reporting staff. They happen
to be the journalists who exposed possible conflict-of-interest real-estate
deals involving Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his wife and several mansions,
unleashing a scandal that the government has yet to put to rest.
Many people in Mexico see the station's actions as
an effort to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists and wonder who is
really behind it.
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