Archive for March 20th, 2008

The press and journalism

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Throughout its history, the press has had a voluble relation of ripples and spacings with the powers political and economic. To a certain extent, the media has been dependent to the dynamic of the political power because it has been part of the same one, in spite of its possible attempts to stay to the margin of him.

If in century XVIII, the press centered its eagerness in merely informative contents, and for century XIX it oriented his profile towards political causes and ideological disputes of opinion, as of century XX it began to handle itself as a spectacular showcase for the entertainment and the impulse of the businesses, vein that today is operated to the maximum.

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