Description: Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have little contact with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela. Through extensive analysis of media coverage from Chavez’s election to the present day, as well as detailed interviews with journalists and academics covering the country, Bad News from Venezuela highlights the factors contributing to reportage in Venezuela and why those factors exist in the first place. From this examination of a single Latin American country, the book furthers the discussion of contemporary media in the West, and how, with the rise of ‘fake news’, their operations have a significant impact on the wider representation of global affairs. Bad News from Venezuela is comprehensive and enlightening for undergraduate students and research academics in media and Latin American studies.
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EAN: 9781032178752
UPC: 9781032178752
ISBN: 9781032178752
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Book Title: Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of fake news
Item Length: 21.4 cm
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Social Sciences, Journalism, Politics
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 308 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Alan Macleod
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Paperback
