'Handsome guy at school' or 'maximum representative of resistance?' Pedro Sánchez's 2024 'Letter to the citizenry' as reported in El Mundo and El País as a case study of flak.
While alert to the porosity between popular culture and journalism that addresses formal politics, this study examines the hazards of news that prioritizes effecting a popular voice-over reality-driven reporting. The case at the heart of the study illustrates the difference between professionalized...
| Publicado en: | Journal of European Popular Culture Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 7 - 26 |
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Apr2025
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