information confronting risk scenarios: tampico´s case, mexico

Abstract

Citizens are entitled to be timely, accurately and impartially informed; the inhabitants of any place in the world should have identified local references, which might allow them to move into  higher  standards  of  living;  they  should  be  able  to  get  aware of  their  environmental contexts.  Their right to be informed about the risks of living in a place such as Tampico should be efficiently managed in the communication by the local media.

In this  contribution we mean  to  present  a  case  study  in the  harbour  of  Tampico Tamaulipas, Mexico, a reflective exercise starting with the origin and continuing with the management of radio broadcasting, in which the participation of citizens will be reviewed in relation to the news presented not only in the daily events, but through a kind of journalism where  the origin of natural and anthropogenic risks threatening society in the area are fully identified, so that the community radio broadcasting contributes daily to the creation and consolidation of a socially built culture focused on  risks that represent a threat to a large part of the area inhabitants. This population, on account of their low socioeconomic conditions, share high rates of vulnerability, which require a greater commitment of both society and those who work for  newspapers and the media, in general, in the southern part of the sSate of Tamaulipas.