Abstract
In this chapter, we examine one set of mechanisms through which wealth inequalities are translated into political and social inequalities that create and reproduce “vitiated institutions of governance” that limit the experience and expression of citizenship (Crespo and Ferreira, chapter 2 in this volume). We also look at the construction and reproduction of worldviews or ideologies that, as Reis shows in chapter 3, structure interpretations of the causes, consequences, appropriateness, and possible solutions of gross inequality.
Mass media in most Latin American societies, especially broadcast television, are controlled by a small elite that uses the media’s definitional power to further,