By Alan Macleod
Routledge
158 pages
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 Venezuelahighlights 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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