Rumores no xornalismo galego

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La constructora San José ya ha llegado a un acuerdo para hacerse con un grupo de comunicación gallego. En estos momentos están buscando la persona que lidere ese proyecto.

Pero las operaciones de compra venta en el sector de medios de comunicación en Galicia no sólo se limitan a un grupo. Vocento y Prisa siguen empeñados en poner un pie en nuestra Comunidad Autónoma. Ejecutivos de ambos grupos viajan últimamente con frecuencia a Galicia, donde están iniciando nuevas negociaciones. Parece que 2006 nos dibuja un horizonte cambiante en el panorama mediático gallego.

Communication Research 1 February 2006; Vol. 33, No. 1

Perceived Similarity of Exemplar Traits and Behavior: Effects on Message Evaluation Julie L. Andsager, Victoria Bemker, Hong-Lim Choi, and Vitalis Torwel Communication Research 2006;33 3-18 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/3?etoc

Media Message Flows and Interpersonal Communication: The Conditional Natureof Effects on Public Opinion Claes H. de Vreese and Hajo G. Boomgaarden Communication Research 2006;33 19-37 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/19?etoc

Chinese Evaluations of Emotional Support Skills, Goals, and Behaviors: An Assessment of Gender-related Similarities and Differences Brant R. Burleson, Meina Liu, Yan Liu, and Steven T. Mortenson Communication Research 2006;33 38-63 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/38?etoc

Group Communication During Resource Dilemmas: 2. Effects of Harvest Limit and Reward Asymmetry Charles Pavitt, Vera Zingerman, Erin Towey, and Courtney McFeeters Communication Research 2006;33 64-91 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/64?etoc

An Analysis of Socioemotional and Task Communication in Online Multiplayer Video Games Jorge Pena and Jeffrey T. Hancock Communication Research 2006;33 92-109 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/92?etoc

FEIRA AUDIOVISUAL VIAXES NA LUSOFONÍA

Tal como xa lle informamos con anterioridade, estamos organizando unha Feira de Produtos Audiovisuais chamada "Viaxes na Lusofonia" que se desenvolverá en paralelo á celebración do VII Congreso Internacional de Comunicación Lusófona, LUSOCOM 2006, que terá lugar en Santiago de Compostela (Galiza) os días 21 e 22 de abril de 2006 ( http://www.novosmedios.org/lusocom).

Estamos recabando materiais de creadores individuais e pequenas produtoras. Pensamos que pode ser unha boa oportunidade para difundir as súas obras en Galiza e coñecer outras producións independentes. A mostra está aberta a longametraxes e curtametraxes, de fición e documentarios, de Portugal, Galiza, Brasil e a África Lusófona. O evento servirá asemade como ponto de encontro entre creadores, e lugar de intercambio comercial entre os creadores e produtoras e distribuidoras. Debido á cantidade de respostas positivas que estamos recibindo tanto en Portugal, en Brasil, en Galiza e nos países da África lusófona, pensamos que o encontro será moi positivo como posta en común de experiencias e que a calidade das producións presentadas será igualmente moi alta.

Ademais, durante os dous días nos que terá lugar a Feira Audiovisual instalaranse na Facultade de Ciencias da Comunicación un conxunto de stands que poderán ser empregados por vostedes para a distribución de material informativo e promocional. Polo tanto, tanto se envían producións ou non, poden remitirnos todos os materiais promocionais que desexen, para que poida ser distribuído nestes stands.

De estar interesados en participar, gustarianos que o confirmase antes do día 23 de xaneiro e, se fose posíbel, que antes desa data nos remitise os títulos das producións coas que participaría nesta mostra audiovisual. Ademais, necesitariamos outros datos sobre o filme: realización, guion, produción, distribución e sinopse. A data límite (deadline) para a recepción das producións será o 1 de marzo e o formato no que deben enviar os materiais é DVD universal.

A Feira Audiovisual "Viaxes na Lusofonía" está coordinada polo profesor Marcelo Martínez, da Facultade de Ciencias da Comunicación da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

Feira Audiovisual "Viaxes na Lusofonia": viaxesnalusofonia#gmail.com

Special Issue of Public Opinion Quarterly: Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns

Did the polls “get it wrong” in the 2004 election? Do certain polls have a “liberal” or “conservative” bias, as alleged by partisans in the campaign? Did journalists accurately cover polling controversies in 2004, or did they contribute to them? These and other questions are addressed in an upcoming special issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, which will be published in December, 2005.This special issue of POQ, edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Robert Shapiro, examines the polls, the media and their evolving relationship. Appearing on the 25th anniversary of an influential POQ symposium on the polls and the media, this issue assembles an extraordinary collection of national experts to take current stock of “the polls,” media reporting on them, and their use in the American political process at the beginning of the 21st century.

Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro Public Opin Q 2005 69: 635-641. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/5/635?etoc-

The Methods and Accuracy of Polling
The Accuracy of the National Preelection Polls in the 2004 Presidential Election Michael W. Traugott Public Opin Q 2005 69: 642-654. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/642?etoc

Toward an Open-Source Methodology: What We Can Learn from the Blogosphere Mark M. Blumenthal Public Opin Q 2005 69: 655-669. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/655?etoc

Pollsters Under Attack: 2004 Election Incivility and Its Consequences Robert P. Daves and Frank Newport Public Opin Q 2005 69: 670-681. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/670?etoc

Polling and the Media
Reporting "The Polls" in 2004 Kathleen A. Frankovic Public Opin Q 2005 69: 682-697. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/682?etoc

Political Polling and the New Media Culture: A Case of More Being Less Tom Rosenstiel Public Opin Q 2005 69: 698-715. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/698?etoc

Of Polls, Mountains: U.S. Journalists and Their Use of Election Surveys Thomas E. Patterson Public Opin Q 2005 69: 716-724. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/716?etoc

Can a Poll Affect Perception of Candidate Traits? Bruce W. Hardy and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Public Opin Q 2005 69: 725-743. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/725?etoc

Voters and Values in the 2004 Election Gary Langer and Jon Cohen Public Opin Q 2005 69: 744-759. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/744?etoc

Polls, Voters, and American Politics
Grassroots Mobilization and Voter Turnout in 2004 Daniel E. Bergan, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Costas Panagopoulos Public Opin Q 2005 69: 760-777. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/760?etoc

Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness Martin Gilens Public Opin Q 2005 69: 778-796. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/778?etoc

La Voz de Galicia, en picado: a fin do efecto Prestige

Audiencia de LVG entre 2000 e 2005 (EGM)

Vendas de LVG entre 1999 e 2005 (OJD)

La Voz de Galicia segue baixando. Os últimos datos do EGM, publicados onte amosan un novo descenso de 18.000 lectores, que sumados aos anteriores significan unha caída total de 124.000 lectores dende mediados de 2004, cando acadou o seu record histórico (696 mil). 124 mil lectores menos en ano e medio. Este descenso é tamén evidente nas cifras da OJD, que indican un descenso de 8.000 exemplares nos últimos 3 anos, situando ao xornal nos seus peores números dende 1990.

¿É esta a fin do efecto Prestige? A estratexia levada a cabo polo xornal entre novembro e decembro de 2002, consistente nunha denuncia feroz da labor do Partido Popular ante a catástrofe, conseguiu o seu obxectivo: gañar a simpatía de moitos galegos, sobre todo dos máis novos, que se converteron en lectores de La Voz. A consecuencia disto, o xornal gañou máis de 200.000 lectores en dous anos. Porén, nos últimos 18 meses esa tendencia inverteuse.

¿Cal pode ser a razón? ¿O xiro dereitista e ferozmente enfrontado co galeguismo? ¿Ou a propia cobertura sobre o Prestige? A partir de xaneiro de 2003 La Voz pregouse ás versións oficiais difundidas dende a Xunta e dende a Moncloa e converteuse nun dos medios máis acríticos coa xestión do PP e, á vez, máis críticos con colectivos como Nunca Máis. La Voz desencantou daquela a centos de milleiros de galegos e agora está pagando as consecuencias. ¿Canto tempo resistirá?

The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 1 January 2006; Vol. 11, No. 1

Still the Wasteland?: An Interview with Newton Minow Alex Jones The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 3-8 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/3?etoc

Reform, Rescue, or Run Out of Money?: Problem Definition in the Social Security Reform Debate Jennifer Jerit The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 9-28 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/9?etoc

News Consumption and the New Electronic Media Douglas Ahlers The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 29-52 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/29?etoc

The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 53-63 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/53?etoc

Still the Middle Way: A Study of Political Communication Practices in Swedish Election Campaigns Lars W. Nord The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 64-76 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/64?etoc

Watchdog or Good Neighbor?: The Public's Expectations of Local News Paula M. Poindexter, Don Heider, and Maxwell McCombs The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 77-88 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1/77?etoc

Book Notes Scott L. Althaus The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2006;11 89-90 http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/89?etoc

Journal of Communication (December 2005; Vol. 55, No. 4)

2004 ICA Presidential Address-----------------------------------------------------------------
How We Talk About How We Talk: Communication Theory in the Public Interest Robert T. Craig J Commun 2005 55: 659-667. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/659?etoc

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A (Re)Conceived Feminist Paradigm for Public Relations: A Case for Substantial Improvement Linda Aldoory J Commun 2005 55: 668-684. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/668?etoc

The Role of Trust in Channels of Strategic Communication for Building Civil Society Carl H. Botan and Maureen Taylor J Commun 2005 55: 685-702. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/685?etoc

Publish or Perish: A Limited Author Analysis of ICA and NCA Journals Ulla Bunz J Commun 2005 55: 703-720. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/703?etoc

A Social Skill Account of Problematic Internet Use Scott E. Caplan J Commun 2005 55: 721-736. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/721?etoc

Use and Disuse of Contextual Primes in Dynamic News Environments Young Mie Kim J Commun 2005 55: 737-755. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/737?etoc

The Genesis of Civic Awareness: Agenda Setting in Political Socialization Spiro Kiousis, Michael McDevitt, and Xu Wu J Commun 2005 55: 756-774. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/756?etoc

Unifying or Polarizing? Short-Term Effects and Postdebate Consequences of Different Rhetorical Strategies in Televised Debates Carsten Reinemann and Marcus Maurer J Commun 2005 55: 775-794. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/775?etoc

Economic Individualism, Humanitarianism, and Welfare Reform: A Value-Based Account of Framing Effects Fuyuan Shen and Heidi Hatfield Edwards J Commun 2005 55: 795-809. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/795?etoc

Media Exposure and Attention as Mediating Variables Influencing Social Risk Judgments Michael D. Slater and Kenneth A. Rasinski J Commun 2005 55: 810-827. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/810?etoc

The Rules of Virtual Groups: Trust, Liking, and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication Joseph B. Walther and Ulla Bunz J Commun 2005 55: 828-846. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/828?etoc

Parental Mediation of Children's Television Viewing in Low-Income Families Ron Warren J Commun 2005 55: 847-863. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/847?etoc

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The State of Media Literacy Education: Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. By David Buckingham. Cambridge, UK: Polity/Blackwell, 2003. 232 pp. $64.95 (hard), $28.95 (soft). * Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change. By Steven Goodman. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003. 144 pp. $42.00 (hard), $19.95 (soft). * Theory of Media Literacy: A Cognitive Approach. By W. James Potter. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. $85.95 (hard), $43.95 (soft). Renee Hobbs J Commun 2005 55: 865-871. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/865?etoc

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence: Edited by Wesley Skogan & Kathleen Frydl. National Research Council Committee to Review Research on Police Policy & Practices, Committee on Law & Justice, Division of Behavioral & Social Sciences & Education. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004. pp. xiii + 413. $44.95 (hard). Michelle Chernikoff Anderson and Howard Giles J Commun 2005 55: 872-874. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/872?etoc

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture: By Eva Illouz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 300 pp. $73.50 (hard), $24.00 (soft). David W. Park J Commun 2005 55: 874-875. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/874?etoc

Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968: By Stephen Prince. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 331 pp. $62.00 (hard), $23.00 (soft). Paul Messaris J Commun 2005 55: 875-876. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/875?etoc

Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics: By Ronald V. Bettig & Jeanne Lynn Hall. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. x + 181 pp. $65.00 (hard), $24.95 (soft). Eileen R. Meehan J Commun 2005 55: 876-878. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/876?etoc

The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World: By Kathleen Hall Jamieson & Paul Waldman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $26.00 (hard), $14.95 (soft) Weiwu Zhang J Commun 2005 55: 878-880. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/878?etoc

The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion: Edited by L. J. Shrum. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004. 376 pp. $89.95 (hard), $39.95 (discounted). Jan Van den Bulck J Commun 2005 55: 880-882. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/880?etoc

Survivor Lessons: Essays on Communication and Reality Television: Edited by Matthew J. Smith & Andrew F. Wood. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. 241 pp. $39.95 (paper). Hillary Warren J Commun 2005 55: 882-883. http://joc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/4/882?etoc

Electing to Fight. Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder)

Does the spread of democracy really contribute to international peace? Successive U. S. administrations have justified various policies intended to promote democracy not only by arguing that democracy is intrinsically good but by pointing to a wide range of research concluding that democracies rarely, if ever, go to war with one another. To promote democracy, the United States has provided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe, and it has attempted to remove undemocratic regimes through political pressure, economic sanctions, and military force. In Electing to Fight, Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder challenge the widely accepted basis of these policies by arguing that states in the early phases of transitions to democracy are more likely than other states to become involved in war.

Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative analysis, Mansfield and Snyder show that emerging democracies with weak political institutions are especially likely to go to war. Leaders of these countries attempt to rally support by invoking external threats and resorting to belligerent, nationalist rhetoric. Mansfield and Snyder point to this pattern in cases ranging from revolutionary France to contemporary Russia. Because the risk of a state's being involved in violent conflict is high until democracy is fully consolidated, Mansfield and Snyder argue, the best way to promote democracy is to begin by building the institutions that democracy requires -- such as the rule of law -- and only then encouraging mass political participation and elections. Readers will find this argument particularly relevant to prevailing concerns about the transitional government in Iraq. Electing to Fight also calls into question the wisdom of urging early elections elsewhere in the Islamic world and in China.

Edward D. Mansfield is Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Power, Trade, and War and International Conflict and the Global Economy.

Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University. He is the author of From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict; Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition; and The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914.

Endorsements
"American foreign policy has been based on the premise that democracy promotes peace. Electing to Fight conclusively shows, however, that democratization, when mishandled, leads to war. Its challenge to the conventional beliefs of scholars and politicians makes it one of the most important books on international affairs in recent decades."
--Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University

"Everyone agrees that democracies make peace not war. But is that true? Jack Snyder and Edward Mansfield have posed the question and answered it with great rigor and sophistication. The result is an important book that describes a far more complicated relationship between democratization and peace than simple-minded rhetoric would suggest."
--Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International

"With notable analytic agility and rigorous empiricism Mansfield and Snyder dissect the popular policy nostrum that promoting democracy abroad promotes peace in the world. Their incisive work will help policymakers steer clear of misleading, facile assumptions and impel scholars to dig deeper and think harder on a subject of critical contemporary importance."
--Thomas Carothers, Director, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror (Philip B. Heymann and Juliette N. Kayyem)

Since September 11, 2001, much has been said about the difficult balancing act between freedom and security, but few have made specific proposals for how to strike that balance. As the scandals over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the "torture memos" written by legal officials in the Bush administration show, without clear rules in place, things can very easily go very wrong.

With this challenge in mind, Philip Heymann and Juliette Kayyem, directors of Harvard's Long-Term Legal Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, take a detailed look at how to handle these competing concerns. Taking into account both the national security viewpoint and the democratic freedoms viewpoint, Heymann and Kayyem consulted experts from across the political spectrum -- including Rand Beers, Robert McNamara, and Michael Chertoff (since named Secretary of Homeland Security) -- about the thorniest and most profound legal challenges of this new era. Heymann and Kayyem offer specific recommendations for dealing with such questions as whether assassination is ever acceptable, when coercion can be used in interrogation, and when detention is allowable. They emphasize that drawing clear rules to guide government conduct protects the innocent from unreasonable government intrusion and prevents government agents from being made scapegoats later if things go wrong. Their recommendations will be of great interest to legal scholars, legislators, policy professionals, and concerned citizens.

Philip Heymann is James Barr Ames Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. From his first job as clerk to US Supreme Court Justice John Harlan to his post as Deputy US Attorney General (1993-1994), Heymann has spent much of his career in government. A former Fulbright Scholar with degrees from Yale University, Harvard Law School, and the Sorbonne, he has been Assistant US Attorney General in charge of the criminal division (1978-1981) and Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department, Acting Administrator of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organizations, and Executive Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. In addition, he was a former Associate Prosecutor and Consultant to the Watergate Special Force. He is the author of Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning without War (MIT Press, 2003).

Juliette Kayyem is Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; former Member of the National Commission on Terrorism; and former Legal Adviser to the Attorney General.

Endorsements
"The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been analyzed at great length, as have the deficiencies in America's defenses that led to these horrific acts. Now, for the first time, two of America's top experts on constitutional law and national security--Philip Heymann and Juliette Kayyem--have provided a comprehensive framework with which America's policymakers can meet the challenges posed by the terrorist mind in a way that respects rather than undermines the true foundations of liberty. Current and future policymakers ignore this blueprint at our peril."
--Bob Barr, member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1995-2003, 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union

"Since September 11, many have talked about the difficult tradeoffs between liberty and security, but few have seriously considered how to manage them. In this book, Heymann and Kayyem confront these tradeoffs head-on in the context of addressing the ten most difficult legal challenges presented by the war on terrorism. One need not agree with every detail of their analysis or proposals to appreciate that this book is the most thoughtful, balanced, and comprehensive analysis of these hard legal issues available anywhere."
--Jack Landman Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

"In fighting the war on terror, we cannot abandon the legal and moral principles that have made us a great nation. Harvard's Phil Heymann and Juliette Kayyem, who have direct experience in fighting terrorism, have produced this extraordinarily thoughtful work containing many specific measures that would not only enhance our ability to fight terrorism but also preserve our essential liberties. It should be read by the President and Congress, who should then move quickly to adopt as many of its suggestions as possible."
--Jeffrey H. Smith, former General Counsel of the CIA and Senior Partner with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter

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Vítimas da desinformación

A crecente "inseguridade informacional", a disconformidade social coa actuación dos medios de comunicación centrou onte o discurso co que Ignacio Ramonet clausurou as xornadas sobre ‘Documentación e Poder’ do Consello da Cultura Galega.


O director de Le Monde Diplomatique compartiu cun ateigado auditorio a súa experiencia como membro fundador do Observatorio Internacional de Medios de Comunicación como proba palpable de que "a cidadanía madurou e é máis consciente de que algo non funciona".
Ao seu ver, e a pesar de que "houbo épocas peores" e "de que nas ditaduras a situación é extrema", nas democracias, a tendencia dos medios "a supeditarse ao poder económico" deixa insatisfeita "a unha porcentaxe cada vez maior de persoas, que sumaron a desconfianza informativa a outras inseguridades, como a laboral ou a sanitaria".

Froito desta situación xurdiu no Foro Social de Porto Alegre no ano 2002 a idea de constituír o Observatorio Internacional de Medios de Comunicación, posto en marcha de xeito oficial un ano despois, como un "contrapoder necesario" exercido pola sociedade civil. A modo de rede e integrado fundamentalmente por universitarios, xornalistas e persoas a título individual, para Ramonet o Observatorio demostrou no seu tempo de vida que "a sociedade pode influenciar ou corrixir o curso da información".

"Existe –di– unha vontade moi combativa e en moitos lugares os observatorios, como os latinoamericanos ou o FAIR en EEUU, plasman en boicot aos medios que traizoan a información". A "importante irritación" que os medios suscitan na poboación xustifica, ao seu ver, protestas como a das Xuventudes de ERC diante da Cope, actuacións que responden "non a unha guerra contra a liberdade de expresión, senón á necesidade de intervención das vítimas da mala información". O xornalista galego lembra que con motivo do tratamento gobernamental dos atentados do 11-M tamén se produciron protestas, aínda que non ante os medios, e engade que se se considera normal protestar ante una empresa farmacéutica que engana cun medicamento, se pode enenteder facelo cando un medio non di a verdade.

Ao fío da relación entre documentación e poder abordadas nas xornadas do Consello da Cultura, Ignacio Ramonet lembra que na súa propia orixe, "a escrita nace para inventariar como unha práctica de elite e de poder", e que hoxe en día en que está democratizada "o problema radica no exceso de información, co que o poder está en saber documentala, é dicir, máis que ter información, trátase de saber discernila e identificala".

A dixitalización, as novas tecnoloxías e internet resultan xa que logo ferramentas fundamentais para o acceso a posicións de poder, capacidade que, para o director do xornal francés, non existe unha vontade real de estender. Ramonet cre que os discursos "evanxelizadores" que chaman a "colmar a fenda dixital" obvian que "isto non pode facerse sen solventar antes outras necesidades primarias. "Se hai países como Marrocos nos que o 60 por cento das nenas non saben ler e escribir, o que se precisa entón non é poñer un ordenador en cada escola, senón poñer a cada neno nunha escola", exclama, e sinala que "os dous mil millóns de persoas que carecen de electricidade, ou o un de cada tres que nunca falou por teléfono, dificilmente poderán chegar a internet".

Chama ademais a atención sobre o crecente debate arredor do goberno da rede, coa advertencia de que "hoxe en día existe un organismo, o ICANN, que depende do Goberno de EEUU que lle outorga a esta administración a capacidade de controlar algo tan inmenso". Para Ramonet, inda que de momento "o controla bastante ben", se en troques de EEUU "fose China quen o gobernase non se admitiría", polo que cómpre buscar unha solución. Esta non pode pasar, ao seu xuízo "polas alternativas propostas por países como Brasil de xestionar a súa propia internet", porque isto derivaría "nun retroceso, que daría unha intranet por cada país e volvería converter en algo dificilisimo superar as fronteiras".

A multiplicación das posibilidades de intercambio é para Ignacio Ramonet o único aspecto positivo da globalización, fenómeno do que se declara "claro adversario", en tanto en canto constitúe "o intento de expansión ata os últimos extremos do modelo de libre cambio e da mercantilización". A partir de aí, resume, "todo é mercadoría e todo é comercio a escala internacional", e engade que polo momento non atopa "tantos exemplos de éxito entre os países abertos á globalización". "Ningún país saíu xamais do subdesenvolvemento, agás Corea do Sur e Taiwán pola Guerra Fría, ou China, que se a tomamos como exemplo temos que defender o modelo de férrea ditadura comunista e non podemos", sentencia, para engadir que para Galicia "a incorporación ao sistema de libre cambio da UE só lle supuxo o desmantelamento dos estaleiros, a cota láctea e a crise do agro".

British Journalism Review 1 December 2005; Vol. 16, No. 4

Reclaiming the Awards

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Life and death in a city unhinged
Matt Frei
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Myths in the making
Kim Fletcher
British Journalism Review 2005;16 12-18
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/12?etoc


My love affair with newspapers
Tom Stoppard
British Journalism Review 2005;16 19-29
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/19?etoc


Quotes of the Quarter

British Journalism Review 2005;16 30
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/30?etoc


Playing with politics
John Cole
British Journalism Review 2005;16 31-37
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/31?etoc


The way we were

British Journalism Review 2005;16 38
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/38?etoc


FOI: turning the tide of secrecy
Heather Brooke
British Journalism Review 2005;16 39-45
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/39?etoc


Quotes of the Quarter

British Journalism Review 2005;16 46
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/46?etoc


Bucking the system
John Sweeney
British Journalism Review 2005;16 47-53
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/47?etoc


Journalists as citizens
Stephen Whittle
British Journalism Review 2005;16 54-57
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/54?etoc


Hall of Fame
Bill Hagerty
British Journalism Review 2005;16 58-60
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/58?etoc


Floundering in the macho media
Deborah Orr
British Journalism Review 2005;16 61-65
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/61?etoc


Putting the world back on the map
James P Rubin
British Journalism Review 2005;16 66-71
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/66?etoc


Hard labour
Gregor Gall
British Journalism Review 2005;16 72-78
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/72?etoc


Editors from A to B
Peter McKay
British Journalism Review 2005;16 79-83
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/79?etoc


Book Review: Loonier than thou: media and the Left
Michael Leapman
British Journalism Review 2005;16 84-85
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/84?etoc


Reporting pantheon
Cal Mccrystal
British Journalism Review 2005;16 86-87
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/86?etoc


FOOC soldiers
Stewart Purvis
British Journalism Review 2005;16 88-89
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/88?etoc


Losing the fame game
Mark Bolland
British Journalism Review 2005;16 90-92
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/90?etoc


Foot light
Anthony Howard
British Journalism Review 2005;16 93-94
http://bjr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/93?etoc