"El objeto de esta publicación es analizar las principales implicaciones del alto nivel de concentración de medios de comunicación existente en el Perú para el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión y el derecho ciudadano a la información respecto de asuntos de interés público, especialmente
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de orden político. En el Perú, como en casi toda América Latina y el Caribe, existe un predominio del sector privado empresarial en el mercado de los medios de comunicación. La expresión máxima del amplio predominio del poder económico en la prensa escrita se produjo en el año 2013, cuando el Grupo El Comercio adquirió la mayor parte de las acciones de la Empresa Periodística Nacional SA (EPENSA) y pasó a controlar aproximadamente 80% de dicho mercado, lo que configura un esquema cuasi monopólico." (Introducción)
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"IsiZulu is one of South Africa’s Lingua francas and has two successful news publications, iLanga and iSolezwe, both written in isiZulu but vastly different in how they convey, craft and package news. This article aims to examine how iSolezwe, an isiZulu-language tabloid, used two editorials to sh
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ape its stance on the May 2008 xenophobic riots. Through the editorials agenda-setting execution, we are able to analyse the tabloids ideology; even when the news reports, and photo-journalistic pieces offered ‘impartially full’ accounts, but, metaphors stray from headline to headline, photographs that are meaningless in themselves become significant when juxtaposed to a piece of text (Fowler 1991: 225) [...] ISolezwe’s coverage began with ambivalence, exhibiting sympathy towards the frustrated South African perpetrators, but was shocked at the level of violence. The news reports were more ‘balanced’ in their coverage, without assuming a position in contrast to the editorials. Examining the entire coverage, a theme is evident, from ambivalent editorials, to news reports that were more balanced. The second editorial dovetailed from the then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Jacob Zuma’s condemnation of the violence but the tabloid did not condemn the xenophobic riots outright, and its reporting ends with a repatriation theme and the tabloid never explored notions of integration." (Abstract)
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