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Cultural Agenda of Latin American Newspapers and Magazines: Is U.S. Domination a Myth?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Robert Buckman
Robert Buckman*
Affiliation:
University of Southwestern Louisiana
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During the early 1960s, when U.S.-Cuban relations reached their nadir and threatened to embroil this planet in the ultimate superpower showdown, a prophetic cartoon appeared in one of the then-popular U.S. feature magazines. It showed a bearded, fatigue-clad newscaster seated at the microphone in the Radio Cuba studios, telling his audience, “And now for the baseball scores from the hated imperialistic Yankee mainland.” The cartoonist had no way of knowing that a quarter of a century later, his whimsical sketch would exemplify the controversy over alleged U.S. cultural penetration of Latin America through its own mass media, in some cases transcending even political barriers. The purpose of this study is to examine what role, if any, the Latin American printed mass media are playing in the intrusion of foreign cultures.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 1990 , pp. 134 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press

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