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Post-authoritarian Politics in a Neoliberal Era: Revising Media and Journalism Transition in Mexico

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Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America

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For the past two centuries various influences have decidedly shaped the changing relations between Mexico’s private news media and the equally mutable state. Local forces and actors; the inevitable impact of global stimuli such as commercialism; and the absence, obsolescence, or non-enforcement of media regulation have profoundly shaped Mexico’s news media and journalism. Throughout this chapter, it is evident that a hybrid media system and a resulting post-authoritarian journalistic culture are in place. Both are better grasped through the understanding of cultural patterns, habits, changing interests, and under-the-table arrangements that have prevailed regardless of political democratization — and sometimes as result of it. Hence, the mere study of global forces, formal legal frameworks, ownership structures, discursive adoption of journalistic norms, or institutional structures can not fully account for the ‘captured liberal’ nature of Mexico’s news media.

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Márquez-Ramírez, M. (2014). Post-authoritarian Politics in a Neoliberal Era: Revising Media and Journalism Transition in Mexico. In: Guerrero, M.A., Márquez-Ramírez, M. (eds) Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409058_16

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