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Brian

Jul 30, 2010, 7:07 AM

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Another blow to journalism in mexico

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Due to threats and kidnappings of it's reporters, this popular Televisa program has been suspended. Increasingly, the people will have to depend upon anonymous social networking posts for vital information.
The program host essentially has said that it is better to report nothing than to repeat the lie that "no pasa nada".

http://www.sopitas.com/...33-punto-de-partida/

Edited to create live link.

Brian: I personally would appreciate it if you would create your own live links.

(This post was edited by esperanza on Jul 30, 2010, 9:48 AM)

Memo

Jul 30, 2010, 7:45 AM

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Without a functioning press, forget about "democracy".

Brian

Jul 30, 2010, 10:34 AM

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Someone on another message board has indicated that the show was only suspended for one weekly episode. Assuming the "conditions" she mentioned have been rectified the, I assume, would return next week.

In the future, I will include summaries rather than links to stories. The forums on MexConnect are difficult to use when creating/editing messages with an IPad especially when using a browser other than Safari..

richmx2

Jul 30, 2010, 3:53 PM

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Uh... it wasn't suspended because of a kidnapping threat, but as a protest against kidnapping -- El Universal article here, and one in English here.

http://mexfiles.net
http://voiceofmexico.com
http://editorialmazatlan.com

Brian

Jul 30, 2010, 4:21 PM

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Yes, one of her Televisa co-workers was taken. She decries a history of threats and kidnappings of journalists and deplores the government's failure to protect it's citizens. I consider her action to be a bold move rather than one made out of intimidation.

ken_in_dfw

Jul 30, 2010, 4:26 PM

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Brian: I personally would appreciate it if you would create your own live links.

ROTFLMAO.

Esperanza, remind me NEVER to piss you off!

esperanza

Jul 30, 2010, 5:02 PM

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Hey, I'm not pissed off. It's just so easy to make a link live--and I've been editing Brian's posts to do that for lo these many moons. If I can make a live link, ANYBODY can make a live link. And I'd way rather have a link from Brian than a cut-and-paste of the article.

Brian doesn't use the PM function or I would have asked him about it privately.

http://www.mexicocooks.typepad.com

chinagringo

Jul 30, 2010, 5:16 PM

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For BRIAN - here is an explanation sent to me by Rolly, when I was frustrated by not being able to create a live link:

One sure fire way is to switch to the basic editor and use the URL clicker. If you are using Firefox, you must do it this way.

With IE, you have three options ---1) use the basic editor; 2) enter the link and add a space at the very end of the kink; 3) highlight a word that you want to activate the link, then click on the link symbol - it's the right most symbol on the command bar. When you use #3, be careful not to get two HTTP:// in the address.

When the link has been successfully established, it'll light up in blue.
Regards,
Neil
Albuquerque, NM

Brian

Jul 30, 2010, 5:40 PM

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Thanks Neil

The IPad is probably going to be many peoples' Internet device of the future. It doesn't use either Firefox or Internet explorer. It uses a virtual keyboard which does not behave the same as a hardware one. The box for posting is problematic especially for editing because only some of it's contents are displayed and you can't scroll up if that makes sense. This is the only website that I have seen that uses the somewhat clumsy method of creating a link. Most are automatic. Anyway, until more websites are tablet-friendly, it is just one thing to get used to. It can't display Flash media either. Despite it's shortcomings, it is now my full-time Internet device.

Brian

Jul 30, 2010, 5:49 PM

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I couldn't edit that last post because the text box cannot now be added to. I wanted to add to Esperanza that it isn't my intention to cut and paste whole articles. I will offer my own summaries trying to remain faithful to the main points in the stories.

RickS

Jul 30, 2010, 5:52 PM

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Neil said: "If you are using Firefox, you must do it this way."

I may be misinterpreting your comment, but one can use the normal (advanced) editor w/Firefox for doing hot links.

How?

+ Type in the link you wish to make hot ( www.mexconnect.com )

+ Highlight and 'copy' (Ctrl C) that link

+ Click on the "Chain Link" symbol in the upper right of the tool bar above the message typing area; this will bring up a dialog box that has a little window ready for your URL. It will already have an "http://" entered; place your cursor after the "http://" and click (to position the cursor); then paste (Ctrl V) the link you copied in the above step; then click 'Submit'. Voila, your link will now be 'hot'. As Neil suggested, since the dialog box already has the "http://", make sure yours does not (or erase it first from the dialog box so you won't have two of them!).

It will now look like www.mexconnect.com and not the 'black' non/clickable version as above.

P.S. This may sound complicated, but once one does it a couple of times it will become a snap.

P.P.S. Also, one does not actually have to use the "http://" before the www.xxxxxxx.com in the URL you are typing and you may also 'erase' it from the dialog box if you wish but it is not necessary to do so. The 'old' Internet required it (and a ton more chicken scratch to make things work) but not anymore.

(This post was edited by RickS on Jul 30, 2010, 8:29 PM)

esperanza

Jul 30, 2010, 6:20 PM

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There's a much simpler way to create a live link. I have posted instructions before. Let me try again.

Type this character: [
Following that character, with no spaces, type the three letters url
Type this character, again without spaces: ]

Type or copy and paste the http://whatever.com you want to link to--again, no spaces.

Type this character: [
Following that character, type this character: /
Type the three letters url again, no spaces
Type this character: ]

Be sure to type no spaces between your characters. Your link will be live.

http://www.mexicocooks.typepad.com

(This post was edited by esperanza on Jul 30, 2010, 6:21 PM)

RickS

Jul 30, 2010, 8:30 PM

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I didn't know about that method..... and yes I think it is somewhat easier.

raferguson

Aug 1, 2010, 10:51 AM

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The method that Esperanza uses is the one that I use, simple and fast.
http://then the full url, including the "http:" part, then

The other methods seem more trouble than they are worth.

Richard

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