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Citizens of Scandal - Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Hardcover)
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Citizens of Scandal - Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Hardcover)
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In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and
consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through
the 1980s. Tracing the process by which Mexico City reporters
denounced official wrongdoing, she shows that by the 1980s
political scandals were a common feature of the national media
diet. News stories of state embezzlement, torture, police violence,
and electoral fraud provided collective opportunities to voice
dissent and offered an important, though unpredictable and
inequitable, mechanism for political representation. The publicity
of wrongdoing also disrupted top-down attempts by the ruling
Partido Revolucionario Institucional to manage public discourse,
exposing divisions within the party and forcing government
officials to grapple with popular discontent. While critical
reporters denounced corruption, they also withheld many secrets
from public discussion, sometimes out of concern for their safety.
Freije highlights the tensions-between free speech and censorship,
representation and exclusion, and transparency and secrecy-that
defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.
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