Políticas neoliberales y radiodifusión estatal en México

Abstract

This work analyses the public media development in Mexico within the context of the neoliberal policies during the 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st. Through a historical approach, the author examines how the Mexican State was not interested in creating policies, which motivated the solid growth of public service media. On the contrary, different federal and state governments only created local broadcasting systems, but most of them were utilized as propaganda.

This paper becomes crucial to understanding how the State media, the State, and society structured a relationship during this historical period. It is also fundamental in order to learn how these three social actors intensified a conversation—in the last decades of the 20th and the first of this century—on the need of developing an independent public media system which contributed to both the local and national development.