The Influence of The Media in Countries’s Political Development

When the mass media were in the late nineteenth century in his stage craft and the modernists of the early twentieth century were faithful to the Diaz dictatorship, living conditions were inhuman in Mexico characterized by a concentration of wealth in a few foreign hands, despoiled the land and slave labor conditions, rural guerrilla presence, there was little high labor supply and labor demand; 840 large estates were created, had a political system based on exploitation of the weakest and bad roads scarce.

  In addition, a personal debt of worker and peasant hooked by the way in alcohol or delinquent loans as well as a legacy of family debts, an ecological disaster and exploitation of raw materials, banking capital held abroad that promoted primarily a industry and trade benefits of the Spanish and other Europeans, the Mexican mines in those days, for example, were held by the British, French and Spanish, the railroad and oil controlled the Americans and British, while in sawmills the owners were American, British, French and Spanish, the 840 farms were owned by Spanish, American, Mexican privileged few and the Church.

  Military power was concentrated in a Mexican president who imposed a dictatorship based on illegal elections and a permanent repression against his opponents, to the extent that there was no economic independence, mortgaged the country and had a zero patriotism.

  Then the 80 percent of Mexicans were illiterate, a situation that facilitated constant violations of the 1857 Constitution, notably Articles sixth and seventh, which nonetheless reaffirmed the freedom of expression, many journalists were assassinated or imprisoned.

  The mass media were mostly owned by friends of General Porfirio Díaz, then President of Mexico, whose performance in the newspapers was exaggerated or distorted in their favor, whereas, in contrast, the journalist Filomeno Mata, director of The Diario del Hogar, was jailed about 40 times for criticizing the government of Diaz.

  Under this system only criticism was authorized by the group of “scientists” against system officials, who have wanted to eliminate.

  In this repressive environment is natural that the media and independent agencies could interact freely, so the violations of constitutional articles mentioned above and at 16, 18, 23 and 27, was a thing of every day.

  By then the independent press was founded on a par with political party liberal groups to oppose the regime of Porfirio Diaz, who held a sham peace based on repression.

  However, in the political development of the country’s media were observed during the Porfiriato an important pillar in the revolutionary changes that resulted in a more democratic nation, compared with the system overthrown.

  It has, for example, the interview with Porfirio by journalist James Creelman on February 17, 1908, where General Diaz promised in the 1910 elections would leave power to another, but also control the message that would have the power behind the throne, news that impact the people of Mexico, which, in turn, pushed through newspapers and opposition politicians to overturn the re-election.

  The group “Santiago de la Hoz” became the purpose of awakening the people through opposition newspapers, preferring the easy caricature than to literature heavy, which is an example of the influence exerted by the media early in the twentieth century political development of Mexico, but newspapers like The Republican Monitor nineteenth century, before succumbing to competition against modernist and official newspaper Impartial, deployed interesting criticism of the Diaz dictatorship.

  Francisco I. Madero is another example of how the influence of mass media was essential to promote actions that would force political change in the Republic, to publish the book titled The Presidential Succession in 1910, the contents of which criticized the regime of Porfirio.

  With this document Madero proposed a coalition government, equivalent to a co-government with the Porfiristas and promoters of change, announced the formation of tiempoque National Democratic Party seeking the vice presidency at that time.

  A distinction is sought to multiply the revolutionary ideas through newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, cartoons, manifestos and books that reproduced the democratic concerns of the public, ie the feelings of the people.

  As AIDS spreads through the world, libertarian ideas also tend to multiply in the minds healthy global population, as happened during the wars of: Independence, Reform and the Mexican Revolution.

  In 1917 the Mexican Liberal Party principles are taken into account to consolidate the Mexican Revolution and reform the 1857 Constitution. The twelve points in the PLM promote revolutionary times were incorporated into the new Constitution of 1917.

  The People’s Sovereignty Party, founded by Francisco Vazquez Gomez and the Monterrey group, meanwhile promoted to the candidacy of 1910 the formula: Porfirio – Bernardo Reyes. In this project, spent much money in advertising and newspapers were founded loyal to Diaz system, among which Impartial, The reelection and the Debate.

  A distinction that friends of the Diaz dictatorship also founded “newspapers loyal to the system to counterbalance the power of revolutionaries who created opposition newspapers referred to the dictatorship. The story notes that newspapers were the weapon of awareness and resistance of the main demands of the time. On one side was an ideological bombardment on pages whose writing opposed the regime of Porfirio Díaz and libertarian ideas proposed, whose repression was a sign that showed the importance of newspapers and publications opposing the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. However, these publications were winners in their intention to democratize the nation.

  It should be taken as part of a history lesson when Madero intensifies its opposition to the regime, and even leaves the NDP and the coalition, later founded the Center antireelectionist of Mexico, whose body was informative: The antireelectionist, a publishing company which nevertheless disappeared through system of repression, germinated in a policy rule in the Constitution of 1917, which proves the importance of mass media and its importance in the development of the country’s political life, despite competing at a disadvantage minimum ratio of 3 to 1 or more with the official media.

  The dictatorship although at the time boycotted and shut the opposition newspaper: The antireelectionist, this abuse of authority that gave strength to the Revolution because, as explained above, the seed opponent of that medium and was seeded prior to closure.

  The impetus for the involvement of the media and the effects of its contents and / or repression suffered, Francisco I. Madero motivated to continue with few resources but with determination struggle in a climate of official hostility, which won fans .

  When Madero was imprisoned month be verified elections (June 1910), the people of Mexico at the news was so incensed that he turned for Madero. This abuse of authority and its dissemination Madero earned more sympathy than those in all his campaign speeches.

  Stresses that the dissemination of the news (when the entire village) activated the reaction of people in favor of the candidate repressed (Madero) and against official injustice, whose abuses sought to nullify the hope of change.

  Another fact:

  In the Chamber of Deputies, Francisco Gonzalez Garza delivered a petition protesting the elections have been held in prison for being a candidate elements of the official party, which was sufficient to annul the election in question. The House rejected that proposal, a history that united the people against the regime strangled by years of independence from Mexico. By then news as they flowed with the greatest interest of the people.

  Another important document that movement was prepared on 5 October 1910 by Madero, while in prison in San Luis Potosi, precisely document entitled Plan of San Luis Potosi, which contained proposals for resolving the land problem, which was then the largest country. The re was no other point of the plan, which also established on 20 noviembrede 1910, at 6 pm, as the date and time to start the strategic Mexican Revolution.

  That document served as a medium of mass communication. Under article 7, reported that the dictator Díaz “ignored the voice of the nation and chose precipitate a revolution, before returning to the people their rights.” Madero condition is relevant how the fighting to the lack of attention to the voice of people, which had previously been published in some newspapers, pamphlets, comics and books of those times. Media were the expression of that voice of the people.

  When the regime learned of the day and time of the uprising could do nothing about it. Which is a sign that the information which is identified with the people was more powerful that the very resistance shown by the military power of the time, who succumbed to the convening power of Madero, who by then was a politician so popular that their military actions were sanctioned by the people.

  When Emiliano Zapata met the Plan de San Luis Potosi, the news made him suppose that the claims represented Madero yearned for by the agricultural sector, in other words, this plan contained in the feelings of the people before released in the newspapers, influenced his participation in the Revolution.

  Without doubt, the essence of journalism is to influence, create opinions and reactions that will ultimately be included in the law or, if already exist, must be respected.

  That was part of the journalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth instrument through which ideas sail in search of supporters, where he acted as real journalism mirror the sentiment of the nation, representing a tribute to free ideas, because the praises produce opposite effects, while always lying down with the weight of truth, when it manifests.

  The journalistic role of opposition to the dictatorship of General Diaz broke early myths like Adolf Hitler, who during World War II said “a lie repeated a million times embraced it as truth.”

  So we could summarize the effects of public opinion expressed during the Diaz dictatorship inspired the Plan de San Luis Potosí, which called for a revolution that defeated the authoritarian regime in question, while the country’s peace was a result of considering the voice of the people in a new constitution. This explains the power of information.