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This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media in the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture. With delicate attention to forward movement and sinister recoil, she brilliantly situates her study in the proliferating field of inquiry into the public sphere. -- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of * Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation * Citizens of Scandal is a deeply researched account of the transformation of Mexican journalism during that country's economic transition from being a miracle of progress to its crisis (1960s-1980s). Vanessa Freije tracks the gradual diversification of Mexico's somewhat compromised and regulated print journalism, focusing most particularly on the press's part in managing scandal and rumor-agrarian corruption, forced sterilization, shady oil deals. This book introduces us to a vital agent in modern Mexican public life. -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of * The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon * [Citizens of Scandal] is an outstanding contribution to the literature on Mexican journalism and the communication processes involved in making scandals, and should be of considerable interest to scholars studying news in other one-party-dominant and 'hybrid' regimes, more generally. -- Daniel C. Hallin * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly * In her insightful and analytically lucid Citizens of Scandal...Freije interweaves the stories of key journalists, famous chroniclers like Carlos Monsivais and Elena Poniatowska.... A selection of political cartoons and photographs enhances the impression of a press ever more willing to hold the powerful to account. -- Andrew Paxman * Hispanic American Historical Review * Of interest to political science and communications scholars and of course journalists, Freije's book is in harmonious conversation with other works that are fundamental to understanding the evolution of not only the Mexican media system, but Latin America's media systems in general. -- Grisel Salazar Rebolledo * NACLA Report on the Americas * [Citizens of Scandal] is a very accessible and engaging study, providing a better understanding of the mediated narratives and conflict triggered by pivotal historical events in modern Mexican history. As such, it builds on and adds to a growing literature on Mexican journalism. -- Stephen D. Morris * The Latin Americanist *

This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media from the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture. With delicate attention to forward movement and sinister recoil, she brilliantly situates her study in the proliferating field of inquiry into the public sphere. -- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of * Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation *

Citizens of Scandal is a deeply researched account of the transformation of Mexican journalism during that country's economic transition from being a miracle of progress to its crisis (1960s-1980s). Vanessa Freije tracks the gradual diversification of Mexico's somewhat compromised and regulated print journalism, focusing most particularly on the press's part in managing scandal and rumor-agrarian corruption, forced sterilization, shady oil deals. This book introduces us to a vital agent in modern Mexican public life. -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of * The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon * This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media in the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture. With delicate attention to forward movement and sinister recoil, she brilliantly situates her study in the proliferating field of inquiry into the public sphere. -- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of * Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation *

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Vanessa Freije is Assistant Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

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