Abstract
As outlined in previous chapters, the EU Media Pluralism Monitor (hereafter ‘MPM’) identifies six dimensions through which media pluralism can be assessed (basic tier, ownership, types and genres, cultural, political and geographic diversity). In Latin America, media pluralism has not been a matter of policy, but of politics. The first section of this chapter will discuss three aspects of politics that have shaped the post-transitory media systems in Latin America.1 The second section will analyse the impact of these aspects on the six dimensions of media pluralism identified by the MPM in order to understand how pluralism, as conceptualized in the EU (KU Leuven — ICRI et al. 2009), has been both challenged and inadequately promoted in Latin America.
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Guerrero, M.A. (2015). Latin American Media: The Challenges to Pluralism. In: Valcke, P., Sükösd, M., Picard, R.G. (eds) Media Pluralism and Diversity. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304308_12
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