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With story BC-MEXICO-MEDIA-NYT Drug traffickers have gone after the media with a vengeance in strategic border towns where drugs are smuggled across by the ton. They have shot up news rooms, kidnapped and killed staffers and called up the media regularly with threats. "They mean what they say," said one of the many terrified journalists who used to cover the police beat in Reynosa. "I'm censoring myself. There's no other way to put it. But so is everybody else." When they are not issuing threats, journalists say, the drug runners are buying off reporters with everything from cash to romps with prostitutes. MEXICO_Reynosa map -- 1.8 x 2.5 Locator map category = a