"Ferreira has crafted a well researched and thorough study of Latin American journalism. This text fills a noticeable void in the literature on the role that journalism has played in the areas of democratization, good government and public opinion formation. Centuries of Silence is certain to be must reading for those interested in how journalism developed in Latin America and how it has changed over time." -- Mike Kryzanek, Bridgewater State College "The extraordinary work by researcher Leonardo Ferreira rescues the Pre-Columbian origins of news activity in Latin America. It brings into question the fallacy of freedom of the press in this continent and denounces that its contemporary journalism contributes to perpetuate both intranational domination and international dependency--which, by oppressing people and silencing their voices, impede the formation of true democracy. This book is also a timely and exemplary call to further investigate the journalistic production of Latin American liberators and their communication perspectives." -- Dr. Luis Ramiro Beltr^D'an, Latin American communication research pioneer and first recipient of the McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award
Foreword Introduction: When Good News Is Bad News Chapter 1 Whose Truth on True Street Chapter 2 A Taste of Freedom Chapter 3 Taken by War and Censorship Chapter 4 Modernization and the Press Chapter 5 How Not to Start a Century Chapter 6 Hot and Cold Wars, Warm Presses Chapter 7 Dreaming a Fair World Chapter 8 One Step Forward, Dozen Backwards Bibliography Index
LEONARDO FERREIRA is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami and a consultant to the Inter-American Press Association, the Grupo de Diarios America, and BBC Latin America.
Probably the most detailed account of the Latin American mass media
ever published in English, this well-annotated book presents a
history of Latin American mass communication from precolonial times
to the present. Covering the development of journalism education in
Latin America and reviewing some of the arguments critical of the
current globalization of media technologies, Ferreira provides less
a discussion of news organizations than an overview of Latin
American media and social policy and cultural and social
development. He cuts across borders from Mexico to Chile and is
mindful to include historical comparisons of how media trends in
Latin America differed from those in the US and western Europe….The
book will be a valuable resource for those interested in
international mass media. Recommended. Graduate students,
researchers, faculty, and professionals.
*Choice*
The greatest strength of Ferreira's work lies in his successful
synthesis of an increasing body of secondary material on the region
and the subject. His book provides a useful reference for
historians and students who desire a compendium of the major
developments and struggles that journalists have endured over the
past 200 years in Latin America….[I]t is clear that Ferreira went
to great lengths to synthesize the existing body of scholarship.
His efforts are commendable and his work provides a useful took for
instructors interested in a survey of the literature of the history
of the news media in Latin America.
*Journalism History*
Centuries of Silence: The Story of Latin American Journalism by
Leonardo Ferreira takes on a huge taskto review and summarize the
story of Latin American newspapers and broadcast journalism. A
member of the communication faculty at the University of Miami as
well as a consultant to the Inter American Press Association, the
author grew up in Colombia before attending college and grad school
in the United States. His history is critical, in almost every
sense of that term, as he finds the press too much under the thumb
of various national elites, and rarely sticking up for the common
person or criticizing government personnel or policies.
*Communication Booknotes Quarterly*
Ferreira begins by asking whether there was a nascent or
proto-journalism in pre-Columbian America. Then he looks at such
stages of Latin American journalism as the idealism surrounding
liberation from Spain; war, censorship, and propaganda during the
19th century; revolution and the Cold War; and tension between
globalization and a fair and humane world.
*Reference & Research Book News*
[L]eonardo Ferreira combines a trilingual review of the literature
with his own original research to produce a book that challenges
conventional theories about how the region's news media came to be
what they are today and, indeed, what exactly they are….Besides
providing a base for further work in the field, this book will
complement standard interpretations of Latin American media
scholars as well as researchers who want to understand the
background that has shaped an expanding segment of the potential
U.S. media audience….Centuries of Silence makes an important
contribution to that understanding.
*American Journalism*
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