Self-censorship or censorship? The news coverage of crimes related to organized crime in Tamaulipas, Mexico

The objective of this research is to identify practices of censures ship among the media of Tamaulipas. All of This about the crime which are believed to be part of the organized delinquency news programs of television, for newspapers in three news channels in Twitter and Facebook were analyzed from...

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Main Authors: Lara-Méndez, Alma Patricia, Barajas-Saucedo, Haydeé Alejandra, Collí-Cardona, Martha Isabel, Fernández-Meza, Kerima Anamí, García-Betancourt, Mario Alberto, Olivares-Rodríguez, Víctor Hugo, Solís-Ríos, Juan Manuel, Villanueva-Sierra, Julio Horacio
Format: Online
Language:eng
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas 2011
Online Access:https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/69
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Summary:The objective of this research is to identify practices of censures ship among the media of Tamaulipas. All of This about the crime which are believed to be part of the organized delinquency news programs of television, for newspapers in three news channels in Twitter and Facebook were analyzed from two natural weeks (Monday through Friday) regional media ( outside Tamaulipas) and state media (in Tamaulipas) were compared and the result was that systematically regional media show more information about the violence events that go on in the own state in comparison to what is showed by the media in Tamaulipas. It is concluded that in uncertain informative situations in social stress the perception that individual has about the reality and about the media is also determined by the lack of the delivered selection of the news.