Lessons for Democrats from 1970’s Chile
The striking parallels between the Chilean media polarization leading up to Pinochet’s coup and our current journalistic and political schisms
On September 11th, 1973, Chile’s Popular Unity government led by President Salvador Allende was overthrown by a military coup staged by General Augusto Pinochet. One year earlier, in autumn 1972, I had conducted 25 interviews with media and political personnel in Santiago and Valparaiso. The Catholic University of Chile had ...
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