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Centuries of Silence - The Story of Latin American Journalism (Hardcover)
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Centuries of Silence - The Story of Latin American Journalism (Hardcover)
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The history of Latin American journalism is ultimately the story of
a people who have been silenced over the centuries, primarily
Native Americans, women, peasants, and the urban poor. This book
seeks to correct the record propounded by most English-language
surveys of Latin American journalism, which tend to neglect
pre-Columbian forms of reporting, the ways in which technology has
been used as a tool of colonization, and the Latin American
conceptual foundations of a free press. Challenging the
conventional notion of a free marketplace of ideas in a region
plagued with serious problems of poverty, violence, propaganda,
political intolerance, poor ethics, journalism education
deficiencies, and media concentration in the hands of an elite,
Ferreira debunks the myth of a free press in Latin America. The
diffusion of colonial presses in the New World resulted in the
imposition of a structural censorship with elements that remain to
this day. They include ethnic and gender discrimination,
technological elitism, state and religious authoritarianism, and
ideological controls. Impoverished, afraid of crime and violence,
and without access to an effective democracy, ordinary Latin
Americans still live silenced by ruling actors that include a
dominant and concentrated media. Thus, not only is the press not
free in Latin America, but it is also itself an instrument of
oppression.
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