An Anthropological Approach to Mass Communication Research

The U.S. Press and Political Change in Latin America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7906113
AutoresJohn C Pollock (0000-0002-3625-3945, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, autor correspondente)
Ano1978
Volume13
Fascículo1
Páginas158-172
Data de publicação1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100030739
OpenAlexW247961921
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas20

The “problem” of U.S. press reporting on Chile during the Allende period is by now well documented. What emerges from articles by journalists, journalism professors, and professors interested in Latin American affairs is a relatively consistent picture of U.S. news media performance: the U.S. press was openly hostile to the Popular Unity government in Chile; maintained its hostile perspective with astonishing homogeneity throughout the United States; and often reduced complex social, economic, and political issues to some of the most disturbing stereotypes found in the cold-war period. The same articles suggest, moreover, that reporting on Chile was not a total aberration but rather related to more general patterns of reporting on Latin America

Cold war · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · Journalism · Latin Americans · Media studies · Period (music) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America