Mexico City's Newspapers Face Hard Times

By: E&P Staff For decades, Mexico City's newspaper "competition" was crowded but cozy. Many of the two dozen or so drab and smudgy papers sold no more than a few thousand copies in a city of 16 million -- but all of them took government cash and advertising while publishing ruling-party press releases disguised as Page One news.

But the teetering newspaper system collapsed in spectacular fashion last month.

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