Honors Theses
Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Journalism
First Advisor
Melvin Arrington
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
The Spanish press has been compared by some to a pendulum, oscillating back and forth between a free press and a press subject to complete censorship by the Spanish government. This thesis is a study of the twentieth-century Spanish press between the years 1939 and 1989. In it I examine the swinging of the pendulum of the Spanish press between the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the transition to democracy, and throughout the first decade of the established democratic Spanish state. I take a critical look at the journalistic successes, failures and trends of the Spanish press throughout this 50-year scope as well as the significant relationship between a free press and a successful democracy. These twentieth-century trends are contextualized within political, economic and social frames as well as within the extensive history of the Spanish periodic press. In order to provide concrete examples of my findings, I have analyzed specific articles from the Spanish periodical ABC—examples which illustrate the trends, successes and limitations of the twentieth-century Spanish press. IV
Recommended Citation
Hutter, Margaret Whitaker, "The Pendulum's Dance with Dictatorship and Democracy: A Look at Journalistic Successes and Failures of the Twentieth Century Spanish Press" (2011). Honors Theses. 2032.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2032
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