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"Muscling in on the media" – a Reporters Without Borders look at organized crime
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Publisher:  Reporters Without Borders
Date Written:  01/03/2011
Year Published:  2011  
Resource Type:  Article

Reporters Without Borders has released a thematic report on what is now the single biggest threat to media freedom – organized crime.

Abstract:  Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a thematic report on what is now the single biggest threat to media freedom – organized crime.

A total of 141 journalists were killed during the decade of the 2000s for daring to denounce the influence of criminal gangs and their parallel economy. Since the end of the Cold War, the media’s leading predators have been mafias, drug cartels and paramilitary groups that have turned to large-scale smuggling. Mafias of the traditional Costa Nostra kind a...
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