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Prensa vendida: Los periodistas y los presidentes : 40 años de relaciones
Spanish
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Published January 1, 1993
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October 1, 2020
Covering the period 1951 to 1993, Prensa Vendida is fascinating in its details about the history of presidential sycophancy within the Mexican press. It combines an often ironic reading of articles and speeches hailing the Chief with personal insight, and it highlights those (often short-lived) media that dared to defy the orthodoxy. Though a senior editor at Proceso, the author resists the temptation to trumpet too much that magazine's own defiance.
On the other hand, the book is repetitive, over-exemplifying the brown-nosing, and it all but ignores the provincial papers. It spends too much time detailing minor incidents of the De la Madrid and Salinas years, while underplaying the general movement towards a more open and less state-dependent press that Salinas (whatever his faults) largely set in motion. In sum, it's anecdotally thick but analytically thin.
On the other hand, the book is repetitive, over-exemplifying the brown-nosing, and it all but ignores the provincial papers. It spends too much time detailing minor incidents of the De la Madrid and Salinas years, while underplaying the general movement towards a more open and less state-dependent press that Salinas (whatever his faults) largely set in motion. In sum, it's anecdotally thick but analytically thin.
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