40 years of the Spanish Constitution. Media narratives of a celebration: between the sacred and the profane
Abstract
This article offers a critical analysis of all ‘op-ed’ columns related to the fortieth anniversary of the Spanish Constitution published in the daily ABC on 6 and 7 December 2018, and in three online newspapers: elconfidencial.com, eldiario.es and infoLibre.es, on 5, 6 and 7 December 2018. Within this celebratory context, an ideological competition developed which took the shape of narratives and counter-narratives around the period to transition to democracy after the death of Franco and the Constitution itself. This study presents and analyses the features of the grand narrative reproduced by ABC –hegemonic, nostalgic and opposed to constitutional reform– vis-à-vis the alternative narratives disseminated by the three digital dailies which, to a greater or lesser extent, advocated the need to reform the Constitution as the way of solving the Spanish institutional crisis.
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