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Centuries of Silence The Story of Latin American Journalism
Leonardo Ferreira
ISBN: 0-275-98410-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98410-6
344 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2006
List Price: $29.95 (UK Sterling Price: £20.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Introduction: When Good News Is Bad News
    Chapter 1 Whose Truth on True Street
    Chapter 2 A Taste of Freedom
    Chapter 3 Taken by War and Censorship
    Chapter 4 Modernization and the Press
    Chapter 5 How Not to Start a Century
    Chapter 6 Hot and Cold Wars, Warm Presses
    Chapter 7 Dreaming a Fair World
    Chapter 8 One Step Forward, Dozen Backwards
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: LEONARDO FERREIRA is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami and a consultant to the Inter-American Press Association, the Grupo de Diarios America, and BBC Latin America.
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