Gibler: AP Fires Oaxaca Correspondent Rebeca Romero
April 5, 2007
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Dear Colleague,
Throughout its reporting of the popular movement in Oaxaca, Narco News correspondents have regularly corrected distorted
reports by then AP correspondent Rebeca Romero. John Gibler reports for Narco News about the firing of Ms. Romero from
her AP post due to violations of their ethics code.
Gibler reports:
"Ms. Romero, a former press secretary for the Mexican federal attorney general, also owns an electronic news agency, ADN
Sureste (Southeast Digital News Agency). ADN Sureste ran paid advertisements for the Oaxaca state government while Ms.
Romero was reporting on the government's involvement in the conflict, in violation of the AP's code of ethics.
"...'I am a honest reporter and I am clean, so I don't have nothing to worry about,' Ms. Romero wrote in an email
response to questions.
"A review of 15 articles written by Ms. Romero between July and November 2006, show that she cited or quoted twice as
many government officials as protesters. Those protesters cited were typically leaders of the teachers union and Oaxaca
People's Popular Assembly (APPO) refuting state claims of their involvement in specific acts of violence."
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