The democratisation of media depends not only on legal
reforms and economic changes introduced into their
structure, but also the biasing effect the dominant political
culture can exert in this process. As seen in the Spanish radio
industry, changes made since the beginning of the political
transition period are purely formal because they remain
deep traits inherited from the Franco dictatorship such as clientelism
and political instrumentalisation. This article analyses
the evolution of private radio and relates the survival of
typical values of the dictatorship with the persistence of the
political culture of Francoism, accepted and internalised by
the new democratic regime.
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