Abstract

VALDES VEGA, María Eugenia. Media, public debate and education reform in Mexico (2013-2014). Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.88, pp.163-195.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/882020/aot2/valdesvegam.

This article analyses the de factoexclusion of the elementary education teacher’s point of view from the public debate about the education reform driven by president Enrique Peña Nieto during the 2013-2014 breaking point. Radio and television privileged the government’s position and handled the magisterial movement of protest with the same rigor as they did with the union leader Elba Esther Gordillo. The main explanation is that the oligarchic media system from then in Mexico kept the citizens form making their opinion with the full expression of the existent plurality in the country. However, one of the foundings was that most of the journalists on the mexican radio and television aligned with the interests of the businessmen and the government against the teachers because of material convenience and ideological agreement, dispite having an increasingly solid professional training.

Keywords : media system; freedom of speech; democracy.

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