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An Anthropological Approach to Mass Communication Research: The U.S. Press and Political Change in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

John Crothers Pollock
John Crothers Pollock*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University (Livingston College)
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The “problem” of U.S. press reporting on Chile during the Allende period is by now well documented. What emerges from articles by journalists, journalism professors, and professors interested in Latin American affairs is a relatively consistent picture of U.S. news media performance: the U.S. press was openly hostile to the Popular Unity government in Chile; maintained its hostile perspective with astonishing homogeneity throughout the United States; and often reduced complex social, economic, and political issues to some of the most disturbing stereotypes found in the cold-war period. The same articles suggest, moreover, that reporting on Chile was not a total aberration but rather related to more general patterns of reporting on Latin America.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , 1978 , pp. 158 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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Prepared with the aid of grants from the Joint Committee on Latin America of the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rutgers Research Council. A preliminary version was presented at the Sixth National Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 25–28 March 1976.

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