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Only one story with a foreign dateline was deemed worthy of a correspondent's assignment Monday. Gunfire in Juarez over the weekend killed three US citizens, an official at the United States Consulate in the city, her husband and another man who was married to a consular worker. NBC's Mark Potter cautioned that "investigators believe the killings may have been a case of mistaken identity and warn against assuming the victim's diplomatic status made them targets." Covering the story on CBS from Los Angeles, Bill Whitaker offered the opposite lesson: "These are the first deadly hits on American diplomatic personnel in Mexico's drug war." He quoted Alberto Islas, a Mexican security analyst, as calling it "a signal to the US government…an act of intimidation."
ABC's Ryan Owens, like NBC's Potter, was on the Tex-Mex border. He repeated a State Department warning that American visitors should stay away from six border cities: Monterrey, Matamoros, Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Nogales and Tijuana. This time last year there was a similar spate of coverage of Mexican narcoviolence from the beaches of Cancun by ABC's Jim Avila, NBC's Potter and CBS' Seth Doane. Now CBS' Whitaker shows us footage of coeds going wild in Acapulco. What a coincidence. It is Spring Break.
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