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Media power in Central America / Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus.
Van Pelt Library P95.82.C35 R63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rockwell, Rick J., 1958-
- Series:
- History of communication
- The history of communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Political aspects--Central America.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Economic aspects--Central America.
- Democracy--Central America.
- Democracy.
- Mass media--Economic aspects.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- Central America.
- United States--Foreign relations--Central America.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Central America--Foreign relations--United States.
- Central America--Politics and government--1979-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Media Power in Central America is the first book in a generation to explore the media landscape in Central America. It captures the political and economic interplay between the media and those in power in the six Spanish-speaking countries of the isthmus. Highlighting the subtle strangulation of opposition media voices in the region, the authors show how the years since the guerrilla wars have not yielded the free media systems that some had expected. Country by country, Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus deal with the specific conditions of government-sponsored media repression, economic censorship, corruption, consumer trends, and media forms that shape the political landscape. Challenging the notion of the media as a democratizing force, Media Power in Central America shows how the media are used to block democratic reforms in many parts of the region and outlines the difficulties of playing watchdog to rulers who use the media as a tool of power.
- Contents:
- Honduras and the media oligarchy
- El Salvador's newly respun corporatism
- Panama's media civil war
- The return of the conservatives in Nicaragua
- Guatemala's struggle with manipulation
- Costa Rica, the exception that proves the rule
- State power, the static in the system
- The threats to Central American journalism
- Corruption and corporate censorship
- The postwar evolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252028023
- OCLC:
- 50192180
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