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9780231119757

Watchdog Journalism in South America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231119757

  • ISBN10:

    0231119755

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

Since the 1980s, investigative journalism has undergone startling development in South America, where repressive regimes have long relegated such reporting to marginal publications or underground outlets. Watchdog Journalism in South America explores the rise of critical journalism in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Drawing upon interviews with journalists and editors and analyzing selected news stories from each country, Silvio Waisbord offers a unique look at the significant differences between critical reporting in developing democracies and that already in place in the United States and European democracies. As Waisbord demonstrates, critical reporting in South America can be better understood as watchdog journalism than as investigative reporting as understood in the tradition of Anglo-American journalism. Examining the historical absence of a muckraking press, he argues that watchdog journalism represents new political and media dynamics and discusses the emergence of a new journalistic culture and its contributions to the quality of democracy and public debates about morality, truth, and accountability.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Investigative Reporting and Watchdog Journalism xiii
PART I THE MAINSTREAMING OF WATCHDOG JOURNALISM 1(90)
Watchdog Journalism in a Historical Perspective
3(30)
Denouncing Wrongdoing
33(25)
Why Watchdogs Bark
58(33)
PART II THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURE OF NEWSMAKING 91(94)
The Politics of Sources
93(26)
Parallel Ideals: Facticity and Objectivity in Exposes
119(32)
Professional Crusaders: The Politics of Professional Journalism
151(34)
PART III WATCHDOG JOURNALISM AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY 185(58)
Can Watchdog Journalism Tell the Truth?
187(22)
Watchdog Journalism and Democratic Accountability
209(34)
Conclusion 243(8)
Notes 251(6)
References 257(20)
Index 277

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