“Are You Serious About This Spanish Thing?”

Notes

[1] It's too bad that my attempt to read the two-page introduction to the first issue under their editorship, which highlighted ‘increased access’ and ‘global engagement’ in its title (Decherney and Sender, 2014) was stymied by the request to pay US$39 for the privilege. I confronted this sitting in a bookstore in Cartagena de Indias, alternately fretting about and luxuriating in my status as a would-be reader without a permanent/full-time job and hence access to the journal via an institution. I should add that, as the editors avow in the part of their article that is freely available, they have been successful, dedicated advocates for fair use, and are operating within the constraints of conservative professional and commercial norms that are set and continued by others.

[1] It is important to clarify that in this data on radio and television stations, all stations that, according to Cofetel, were assigned to public and private institutions and companies have been counted, but this does not mean that at the time this information was collected all were active.

[2] The total number of television frequencies includes mirror channels that have been flagged for digital conversion.

[3] Among those scholars who first took action were Beatriz Solis and Fatima Fernandez, who in subsequent years were joined by Alma Rosa Alva de la Silva, Javier Esteinou, and Gabriel Sosa Plata, among others.

[4] AMEDI was founded by Beatriz Solis. Its current president is Aleida Calleha.

[5] Some of the legislators in this case were Javier Corral of PAN, Manuel Barlett of PRI, Felipe Vicencion of PAN and Cesar Raul Ojeda of PRD.

[6] This movement emerged in response to a visit from then-candidate Enrique Pena Nieto to the Iberoamerican University in May of 2012 during his presidential campaign and the alleged influence of Televisa in the campaign.