It is very ugly to watch in the news how a woman reporter for ESPN has been receiving death threats, especially because her only job is to inform people from the field when she is at a game. Erin Andrews is the woman who has been target of death threats according to CNN.com.
It was horrifying for me watching this note, especially because at this day but five years ago, a journalist from El Imparcial, was kidnapped and nothing was known of him again.
Even though both cases are very different, the two cases caught my attention because now with technology and crazy people out there, is harder to be free when you are a public figure in the case of Andrews.
In the case of the Mexican journalist, he used to write notes about organized crime and stuff like that, what makes clear that some people did not agree what he write, so they decided just to shut him off. According to a Mexico City journal, in the past three years Mexico lead every country in murdered journalists.
These are ugly realities we are facing, and we will hardly stop them. When this topic shows up I don't like to talk about it, write it does not make it easier, but is something I just wanted to share.
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