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Structures of power in the control of the private television media of Andean America

Abstract:

This article analyzes and describes the configuration of the media structures of those who control television media with national coverage in Andean America: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. Through a critical review of documents, it becomes clear that there are people, family groups, national and transnational business conglomerates of multiple activities, which have links in several cases with the politicians and governments in power, who constitute the structures of power, that dominate the content of infotainment and the public opinion; the economy and the market; ideological indoctrination and the government policy in the countries of the Andean region.