Organized Crime, Fear and Peacebuilding in Mexico by Mauricio Meschoulam

Author:Mauricio Meschoulam
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319949291
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Distrust of Mass Media and Government

It is noteworthy that interviewees mentioned the media much less than the categories discussed above, despite the interview protocol containing some very specific questions regarding television, radio, newspapers, and even though interviewers intentionally tried to find out more about the extent of the interviewee’s contact with the media. Printed media (f = 174) received 2% of mentions, Television (f = 124) 1.7%, and Radio (f = 84) just 1.19%. Although this was explored in much more depth in the fourth phase of this investigation, as discussed in Chapter 6, the first two phases had already provided a clue as to why this was so. Distrust of Mass Media (f = 255) was mentioned more frequently than the use of these same media. To quote the author’s initial publication:This does not mean that participants do not read papers, watch TV, or listen to the radio (70% of participants mentioned those themes at least once). This may only mean that participants do not trust what they read, watch, or listen in the media. Their perceptions and conceptions regarding organized criminal violence and peace are more greatly influenced by what they experience and observe in their surroundings, and by what they talk about with family, friends, coworkers and neighbors. In fact, taken together, all the themes related to experience (own, someone close, one single experience, experience from work), the combined frequencies represent 50% of the ways by which participants socially constructed their ideas and opinions related to organized criminal violence and peace. In contrast, traditional mass media (printed, TV, and radio) captured a frequency of 13% for influential elements in participants’ views. (Meschoulam et al., 2015)

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