This happens from their most innocent forms (such as jokes or song lyrics) to their antisocial manifestations (such as rape, torture, and murder) and by the media and institutional practices that mislead the interpretation of violent events.
The victims become a morbid source of image production as the material evidence of psychological and physical violence. For most citizens, the media have been the main source of images and information about the femicides in Ciudad Juárez. This fact affords them an important role that could be used to avoid further production of discourses that perpetuate violence. …show more content…
The style was very cut and dry, assimilating to a very strict AP article that rely solely on the facts that tampered, sloppy, and unprofessional police reports put out for the press (McKinley A8). What was interesting about the coverage found for the El Paso Times was that the articles that talked about the femicides in Juárez were all translated into Spanish, while the newspaper is an English based publication. Occasionally, the articles mentioned the tally of the femicides, however, such facts were usually buried in between statements given by government officials. One article, which was published by the El Paso Times but obtained from the Associated Press, even talked about the actions that the American government was taking to pressure then Mexican President Vicente Fox to solve the cases in a timely manner to provide answers and a proper closure to the many families affected (“U.S. Congress”). Two articles reported on how the mayor of Juárez and the governor of Chihuahua at the time claimed the city was more than the female murders (“Autoridades”). Mayor Héctor Murguía even said that Juárez was the safest border city in the United States, per an article that was reporting on yet the death of another young lady a few days earlier (“Reportan la violación”). The fact that the El Paso Times sometimes relied on wired