¡Alarma! (magazine)
¡Alarma! (Spanish for "Alarm!") was a Mexican news-magazine that specialized in very graphic pictures of traffic accidents, murder victims,[1] as well as pictures of scantily clad women.
¡Alarma! was canceled because the editor died.[2]
History and profile
¡Alarma! was first published on April 17, 1963, and its success has spawned several competitors (including Alarde!, Enlace! and Poliéster). It was censored briefly between 1986 and 1991, during which time it was not published, before returning as El nuevo Alarma! The magazine states it had a circulation of 15 million copies. The magazine has been discontinued since 2014.
gollark: I mean, not exactly this, this is probably stupid and won't do much.
gollark: I do worry about the future of privacy given this sort of thing.
gollark: People would distrust most things if they mysteriously appeared out of nowhere/came from aliens.
gollark: * it is an eye, and also the eye of the person who claims to have it
gollark: As well as the various other problems, I don't understand how they can actually use this sort of thing to prevent Sybil attack issues without a central authority saying "yes, this is an eye".
References
- Bernardo Loyola (9 June 2010). "Gruesome photos are Mexican magazine's specialty". CNN. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- Miguel Angel Martinez. "Miguel_Ángel Rodríguez, El editor¿de_hierro?". Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
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