Informing the Great War from a local newspaper: the case of "El Correo del Atlántico" (1914-1917)
Abstract
This article analyzes how the First World War was depicted through the pages of the costa rican local newspaper El Correo del Atlántico. The main hypothesis argue that this newspaper was germanophile and worked as the voice of the german population in Costa Rica during the european conflict. The informative sources, the themes of the news and the relationship between the newspaper and other costa rican press institutions regarding the Great War were analyzed in order to achieve the objetive of this research.
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