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Citation |
Kodrich K. Bull. Latin Am. Res. 2008; 27(1): 61-82. |
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(Copyright © 2008, Society for Latin American Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
Barricada, a daily newspaper in Nicaragua, closed in 1998. The editor said his newspaper was a victim of a government policy to remove state advertising from Barricada, which was the official newspaper of the opposition Sandinista political party. This study examines the role of state advertising as a means of governmental control of the news media. The study finds evidence to support the claim that Barricada was the victim of a partisan campaign to withhold advertising. But it also finds that the Sandinistas had done the same thing when they were in power in the 1980s. |