Democracy, journalism, and Latin American populism

Bibliographic Data

ID7477532
AuthorsSilvio Waisbord (0000-0003-0026-7111, George Washington University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume14
Issue4
Pages504-521
Publication date2012-10-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884912464178
OpenAlexW2004141139
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited20

Contemporary populism in Latin America suggests that normative arguments about the relation between journalism and democracy are premised on contrasting models of media democracy. There is no single model of media ethics to offer a single foundation for media democracy. The model represented by the Anglo-American tradition of the liberal press assigns the market a central role, and envisions limited participation of civil society and the state. Instead, models of citizen-based media democracy place civic society at the center, and grant limited and regulated participation to the market and the state. Populism, I argue, fits none of these options. Instead, it offers a model that places the state at the center of media systems and approaches market and civil society as opposed or subjected to the designs of the government. It sees journalism as inevitably divided between ‘popular-national’ and ‘foreign-oligarchic’ interests, and views the state as a necessary instrument to redress imbalances in democracies and press systems. The case of populism confirms that answers to questions about journalism and democracy are embedded in contrasting visions about the necessary relations between the state, market, and civil society in democratic life

Civil society · Democracy · Journalism · Liberal democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Redress · Representative democracy · Sociology · State (computer science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics · Law · Public Administration

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