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The relevance of Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model during october 2019 protests in Ecuador

Abstract:

The Propaganda Model (MP) designed by Herman and Chomsky in 1988, in their work the Guardians of Liberty, continues to have detractors and followers. This model centered on the behavior and performance of the media (Herman, 2000), frontally criticizes the liberal ideology and the interests of the elites, which placed it on the periphery of academic debates. However, since the new century, some authors have deepened the MP at a theoretical and practical level (Pedro-Carañana, Boudry, Klaehn). Our research try to demonstrate the relevance of the model through the analysis (quantitative and qualitative) of the coverage and positioning of the main Ecuadorian media of the protests against the economic adjustment plans imposed by the so-called Decree 883 that in October 2019 fuel price in Ecuador.