Press and corruption

Monterrey, Mexico .- To celebrate the Day of Freedom of Expression have to understand that self-censorship in Mexico is a national sport ... and good business.

It passed the famous "Chayo? as he knew the envelope with money that was given to reporters from various sources, but it survives only bill and a few friends.

Wins the birth of corporate bribery of journalists one evening in the State of Sonora in the candidate's campaign Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.

Behind chayote plant was given to the reporters covering the tour an envelope with money. "Go get your squash? was the slogan that was marked in the history of complicity and corruption in Mexico.

Press-power relationship has had ups and downs. The formula is not new. President Jose Lopez Portillo at a breakfast of June 7, 1981 he told reporters, "I do not pay for me to hit? a clear allusion to the weekly Proceso.

This is a good reference, dear reader, to understand that you can live for and by readers. The then Director of Social Communication, Francisco Galindo Ochoa had declared a boycott of the weekly ad that ran in July Sherer, a caricature uncomfortable Naranjo.

Naranjo's response was highly intelligent. The next board was a basket full of flowers, with a large handle and a shower of petals. In the loop, a card:

From: Naranjo.

To: Galindo Ochoa

And the title of it: The customer what he asks.

Survived the process and its readership boycott decreed nearly doubled. The project saved the newspaper readers.

Reflecting on the Day of Freedom of Expression at least seems to matter is the reader, in a proliferation of means of all colors.

So, sarcastically, a reader told me it would have to change a verse of the National Anthem, "a magazine (or newspaper) in each period gave you ... ?

In marriage there is no Power Press-love, hate but also much needed.

Petty cash ...

On the night of June 5, 1982, Joel Sampayo Climaco, Managing Editor of El Diario de Monterrey arrived at the training table where this picateclas labored and learned the world of print media and said:

- "Brother, I need your help to form a special edition?.

Three packs of Raleigh and a mug of coffee, Sampayo Climaco began to shape in text and layout to the special edition of the championship that Tigres UANL managed exactly 25 years ago.

When the cover photograph of Matthew chose a Bravo that together the hands, legs open eyes on the ball stopped several penalties. The head was singular: "San Mateo?

Soon after came the innovation workshop with new discs utilizing Compugraphics 5 1 / 4 inches but was still waxing strips and header typography and luster paper for sales where the photographs were.

Sampayo went to read the manuals and met an image, in the distance, a jar of beer, but that was about a letter that was leaving for vacation the then editor, Jorge Ignacio Villegas Nuñez.

Which edition that!

The Bearer

Nuevo Leon became the cornucopia of the abundance of goat horns.