The Catholic Church in Chile and the project of the Good Press. Experience in the Archdiocese of Santiago, 1906-1936

Abstract

Insert in the field of communications history, this article questions the conditions and characteristics assumed in Chile the international initiative of the Good Press (BP), driven by the Vatican since the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. In the same assumptions that BP was an action to modernize the global communication are supported Catholic and appropriate participation strategy in the emerging field communication began to take place where disputes and control the influence of public opinion legal and not legal in the early twentieth century in Chile. Finally, this release is the initial part of a series of three papers on Chilean BP, where we will develop various empirical aspects of its implementation.