New website
"Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
Max Frankel, the seasoned authentic journalist of the NY Times, wrote in last Sunday's Times magazine:
"This is a media alert for editors and television producers who thought they could safely ignore all news outside the United States: the permanent drug war is going military -- and abroad.. Alert media will want to prepare to field Spanish-speaking correspondents, duly covered by kidnap insurance, to follow the action.. It would be unwise to expect trustworthy information from Washington.."
Mr. Frankel has just made the best case for The Narco News Bulletin:
www.narconews.com/
Narco News was born on April 18th, and has had more than 18,000 visits in its first 13 days. We translate drug war coverage from Latin America. We publish original stories and analysis.
We don't ask for your money. Spend it on other worthy organizations. We just hope you will read our reports and spread the word on websites, listservs, and in the media that The Narco News Bulletin exists. We need your help to break the information blockade on all sides of the border.
The Narco News Bulletin has just broken a story: how the Los Angeles Times allowed a Mexican daily to tamper with its investigative report on a Mexican presidential candidate - the one backed by Bill Clinton's political consultant and pollster - and that candidate's dark history with narco corruption.
This week, another daily newspaper in Mexico - the one with widest national readership - is preparing a feature on The Narco News Bulletin. We will translate it into English and post it on our site the moment it hits.
The Narco News Bulletin is proving, day after day, that the corruption of drug prohibition comes not from south of the border, but from Washington and its misguided drug policies.
Check it out. If you like Narco News, spread the word!
Finally, we'd like to thank those who helped get Narco News out of the shadows so fast: Our Gold, Silver, and Bronze medallists - our computers count how many visits we receive from other web sites - for the month of April 2000 are:
1. Gold Medal to DRCNet
(Their newsletter, The Week Online, has amazing reach!)
2. Silver Medal to MSN's Slate
(specifically to Slate's Breakfast Table site with media critics Dan Kennedy and Cynthia Cotts)
3. Bronze Medal to The Boston Phoenix
(whose story on Narco News also brought us a ton of visits and links).
If you know a concerned web site or listserv that hasn't linked to us yet, please make it happen. Here at Narco News we have no ad agency, no paid staff, no advertising and we don't seek your hard-earned dough. We just want the credible truth to be known, especially among the badly informed public in the United States, from where all drug war evils flow.
Yes, we speak Spanish and English.
We also try to speak truth to power.
With your truth and our truth, we can make a bigger truth.
From somewhere in a country called America,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
mailto:narconews@hotmail.com
www.narconews.com
Part V: The Rebels, Not the Government, Slowed the Drug Trade
www.narconews.com/chiapaspart5.html
Anatomy of Censorship
www.narconews.com/anatomy1.html
U. of Cal. Censors Web Site on Colombia Conflict
www.narconews.com/censored0600.html
The Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline
www.narconews.com/USDominican1.html
Charles Manatt, Clinton's New Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Demonstrates the Importance of Drug Money to Election 2000 and to Al Gore
www.narconews.com/USDominican1.html
If you can break him there, you can break him anywhere....
McCaffrey Explodes!
Drug Czar's media tantrum on ABC, CBS, and NBC has boomerang effect
The New Yorker can't print 'em fast enough
New Yorker statement to the press
www.narconews.com/nyer.html
Boston Globe on air war
www.boston.com/dailyglobe...rsh-.shtml
"Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
Max Frankel, the seasoned authentic journalist of the NY Times, wrote in last Sunday's Times magazine:
"This is a media alert for editors and television producers who thought they could safely ignore all news outside the United States: the permanent drug war is going military -- and abroad.. Alert media will want to prepare to field Spanish-speaking correspondents, duly covered by kidnap insurance, to follow the action.. It would be unwise to expect trustworthy information from Washington.."
Mr. Frankel has just made the best case for The Narco News Bulletin:
www.narconews.com/
Narco News was born on April 18th, and has had more than 18,000 visits in its first 13 days. We translate drug war coverage from Latin America. We publish original stories and analysis.
We don't ask for your money. Spend it on other worthy organizations. We just hope you will read our reports and spread the word on websites, listservs, and in the media that The Narco News Bulletin exists. We need your help to break the information blockade on all sides of the border.
The Narco News Bulletin has just broken a story: how the Los Angeles Times allowed a Mexican daily to tamper with its investigative report on a Mexican presidential candidate - the one backed by Bill Clinton's political consultant and pollster - and that candidate's dark history with narco corruption.
This week, another daily newspaper in Mexico - the one with widest national readership - is preparing a feature on The Narco News Bulletin. We will translate it into English and post it on our site the moment it hits.
The Narco News Bulletin is proving, day after day, that the corruption of drug prohibition comes not from south of the border, but from Washington and its misguided drug policies.
Check it out. If you like Narco News, spread the word!
Finally, we'd like to thank those who helped get Narco News out of the shadows so fast: Our Gold, Silver, and Bronze medallists - our computers count how many visits we receive from other web sites - for the month of April 2000 are:
1. Gold Medal to DRCNet
(Their newsletter, The Week Online, has amazing reach!)
2. Silver Medal to MSN's Slate
(specifically to Slate's Breakfast Table site with media critics Dan Kennedy and Cynthia Cotts)
3. Bronze Medal to The Boston Phoenix
(whose story on Narco News also brought us a ton of visits and links).
If you know a concerned web site or listserv that hasn't linked to us yet, please make it happen. Here at Narco News we have no ad agency, no paid staff, no advertising and we don't seek your hard-earned dough. We just want the credible truth to be known, especially among the badly informed public in the United States, from where all drug war evils flow.
Yes, we speak Spanish and English.
We also try to speak truth to power.
With your truth and our truth, we can make a bigger truth.
From somewhere in a country called America,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
mailto:narconews@hotmail.com
www.narconews.com
Part V: The Rebels, Not the Government, Slowed the Drug Trade
www.narconews.com/chiapaspart5.html
Anatomy of Censorship
www.narconews.com/anatomy1.html
U. of Cal. Censors Web Site on Colombia Conflict
www.narconews.com/censored0600.html
The Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline
www.narconews.com/USDominican1.html
Charles Manatt, Clinton's New Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Demonstrates the Importance of Drug Money to Election 2000 and to Al Gore
www.narconews.com/USDominican1.html
If you can break him there, you can break him anywhere....
McCaffrey Explodes!
Drug Czar's media tantrum on ABC, CBS, and NBC has boomerang effect
The New Yorker can't print 'em fast enough
New Yorker statement to the press
www.narconews.com/nyer.html
Boston Globe on air war
www.boston.com/dailyglobe...rsh-.shtml
