Magic realism in Latin America

Article Abstract:

Latin American governments have adopted a belligerent attitude towards the mass media leading to a spate of attacks on journalists in many parts of the continent. According to a study by Florida International University 300 journalists have been killed in Peru and Colombia since 1985. Strict observance of press censorship and frequent imprisonment of journalists have become a common phenomenon particularly in Peru, Brazil and Colombia which is an irony in the region ruled by democratically elected governments. Freedom of expression in Latin America remains a far cry from reality.

Latin America, Press and politics

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The wicked world: the National Police Gazette and gilded-age America

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The most popular 19th-century publication offering illustrated reportage of crime, violence, scandal and sex was the National Police Gazette which reached a circulation of 150,000 in the late 1870s. Under publisher Richard Kyle Fox, the paper specialized in illustration and description of the gruesome and violent. It reported on bloody sports such as boxing, ratting and cockfighting which were then illegal. The publication was a white workingman's newspaper and promoted racial and gender stereotypes.

History, Portrayals, New York, New York, Crime, Crime and the press, Crime reporting (Journalism)

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Justified doubts: reporters underestimated the strength and resilience of America's adversaries

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The media was blamed for having exaggerated the events related to the 1968 Viet Cong Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. A writer opines that reporters, particularly TV reporters, could be faulted only for underestimating, particularly on television, the resilience and strength of the enemy forces. Television captured the operations of the western forces and their technological power but failed to cover what the enemy did well, which was to keep recruiting and attacking.

Evaluation, Wars, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Military campaigns, War in mass media, Tet Offensive, 1968

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