Max Simpson - Multimedia Pick

            I picked a Time report on the dangers faced by the journalists in Juarez, Mexico and the impact they are having in the area. The video uses the accounts of journalists and images from Juarez to tell the story of the extreme risks they take to show the violence in the area to the world. According to one of the journalists interviewed the news outlets have so much credibility that people in Juarez are likely to contact them before the police when a crime is committed. The video shows the armed guards that accompany some of the journalists and talks about the threats they have received from the cartels. The segment is moving because of the willingness of the journalists to stay in a dangerous area to get the story of the violence around them. The pictures of those killed in Juarez and the experiences of the journalists made the seriousness of their situation immediately clear. There are accounts of gunmen still being at the scene of a crime when the journalists arrive and an account of a local reporter being killed as he was leaving his house to take his daughter to school. Overall the segment does a good job of showing the brutality of the violence in Juarez without being overly graphic.