Some Reporters Paid Off, Paper Says
From Times Wire Reports
Mexico’s Defense Ministry put reporters on its payroll and kept tabs on their work to encourage more favorable coverage of its battle against Indian rebels in southern Chiapas state, a newspaper reported. The Milenio daily said that soon after the Zapatista uprising in January 1994, the Defense Ministry became convinced that the print medium was too sympathetic to the guerrillas’ cause and began compiling massive files on about 80 key reporters. Milenio said the ministry denied the existence of the files.
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