Shielding democracy: foreign correspondent coverage of the 1981 Military Coup Attempt in Spain in The Economist, Time and Newsweek
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- dc.contributor.author Tulloch, Christopher David
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-04T06:22:30Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract The role of the international press as an external contributing agent to the consolidation of democratic regime change within emerging democracies is a growing research area within the field of media history and political communication. Within the context of these press/power dynamics, this article analyses the intense coverage made by the influential transatlantic weekly magazines, Time, Newsweek and The Economist of the attempted military coup in Spain in February 1981. It argues that all three publications made editorial decisions and employed narrative strategies –based on contempt for the foiled military uprising, acritical elevation of the young King and the consensual projection of democratic consolidation in the country- in an indirect but strategic contribution to the defence of the institutional stability of a country emerging from 40 years of dictatorship and whose destiny was crucial to wider Cold War geopolitical considerations in the southern Mediterranean at the time.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness [grant number CSO 2015-67752-P].
- dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
- dc.identifier.citation Tulloch CD. Shielding democracy: foreign correspondent coverage of the 1981 Military Coup Attempt in Spain in The Economist, Time and Newsweek. Media Hist. 2023;29(2):255-68. DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2076662
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2076662
- dc.identifier.issn 1368-8804
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56671
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Media History. 2023;29(2):255-68.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2015-67752-P
- dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Media History on 19 May 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13688804.2022.2076662
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- dc.subject.keyword Transition
- dc.subject.keyword democracy
- dc.subject.keyword Spain
- dc.subject.keyword United States of America
- dc.subject.keyword press magazines
- dc.subject.keyword foreign correspondents
- dc.subject.keyword international politics
- dc.subject.keyword time
- dc.subject.keyword newsweek
- dc.subject.keyword economist
- dc.title Shielding democracy: foreign correspondent coverage of the 1981 Military Coup Attempt in Spain in The Economist, Time and Newsweek
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