WEEK 16: The Mass Media in Mexico and Argentina

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REQUIRED
  • Chappell Lawson, Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and Media Opening in Mexico (Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 1999), p. 1-11, 99-332.

  • Sallie Frank, TBA. Barbara Belejack, "Latin American journalists under the gun," (NACLA Report on the Americas), July-August 1998, 32 (1): 6-10.

  • Joel Simon, "Hot on the money trail: Latin American journalists are flexing new muscle, exposing scandal, probing corruption, even toppling presidents," Columbia Journalism Review, January-February 1998, 36 (5): 50-55.

  • Silvio R. Waisbord, "Knocking on Newsroom Doors: The Press and Political Scandals in Argentina," Political Communication, January 1994, 11 (1):19-33.
RECOMMENDED
  • Ilya Adler, "The Mexican Case: The Media in the 1988 Presidential Election," in Thomas E. Skidmore, ed., Television, politics, and the transition to democracy in Latin America (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993).

  • C. P. Kottack, "Television's Impact on Values and Local Life in Brazil," Journal of Communication, Winter 1991, 41 (1):70-87.

  • Thomas E. Skidmore, ed., Television, politics, and the transition to democracy in Latin America (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993).

  • Jose Antonio Mayobre, "Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy: The Case of Venezuela," in David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini, eds., Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy (Westport, CT: Prager, 1996), p. 207-25.

  • Richard R. Cole, ed., Communication in Latin America: journalism, mass media, and society (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996).

 

The three top presidential candidates from left, National Action Party Vicente Fox, Institutional Revolutionary Party Francisco Labastida and Democratic Revolution Party Cuauhtemoc Cardenas get ready minutes before a debate Friday May 26, 2000, in Mexico City. Presidential candidate of Institutional Revolutionary Party Francisco Labastida is made up minutes before of a debate (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.

 

 

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