The positioning of La Voz de Galicia during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Abstract

During the previous years to the Spanish civil war, the Coruña’s newspaper La Voz de Galicia guided its contents following the precise indications received from the press and propaganda Department and from the successive organizations that followed it. The military and civilian authorities participating during those years in the appointments of members of the administrative council and the newspaper director, these delegating in the edition team. However, the juridical property of the company always remained in the hands of its legitimate owners. La Voz de Galicia preferred that others expressed their preferences and disagreements in relation to the governmental initiatives (AUTHOR). The main object was to show that the newspaper took measures in order to include only opinions with some affinity with the common target of winning the war, trying as everyone else used doing. The article tackles with a descriptive and analytical methodology the system for the selection of the journalists that covered the information in such difficult period and shows how the point of view of external sources was inevitably considered not reliable. In the same wide, it gives data related to the context that involved the conflict, trying to keep up a loyalty to the foundational principles of the newspaper.