Abstract

ANDRADA, Damian. From the blackout of 1996 to the general strike of 2018: Three decades of social protests media coverage in Argentina. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2021, n.31, pp.63-92. ISSN 2306-8671.

Abstract The article analyzes the press coverage of five cacerolazos and two social protests developed between 1996 and 2018 in the Republic of Argentina by the newspapers Clarín, La Nación and Página/12, by defining three stages in the journalistic coverage of social protests and general strikes. The first stase takes the second term of Carlos Menem, the unfinished government of Fernando de la Rúa and the presidency of Néstor Kirchner, which gathers coverage without po-larization. In this period, the three media do not present too many differences in their framing, giving the impression of neutrality and journalistic objectivity. The second period takes the two presidencies of Cristina Kirchner, where a polarization is identified in which the media Clarín and La Nación support and promote social protests, while Página/12 questions them. The third period corresponds to the government of Mauricio Macri, in which the two main media in tune with the ruling party build various strategies to delegitimize social protest in what is a true pedagogy of the delegitimization of social protests.

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