For Mexico's journalists, story assignment can be a date with death

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/04/mexico.journalists.violence/index.html

So far, this year three Mexican journalists have been killed. Journalists now have to think twice before writing their stories. The drug violence has generated fear among journalists even if they won't admit it. Journalists are targeted when they report on the criminal activities of the drug cartels. They know what they are getting into when they choose to report. Self-censorship has been adopted by many media outlets in Mexico as a way to protect themselves. There are times when cartels pressure the media to report or not report on certain incidents.