The rebellion of media power in the face of the construction of electoral democracy in Mexico

Abstract

With the conquest of new political and cultural skills that reached the private electronic media, these became great factual powers which have changed the traditional structure of the Mexican nation state, and thus building today a new Hybrid State formed by the Executive Power, the Legislative, the Judicial Power and the Media Power. Such Media Power again has shown its strength regarding the State when in the elections of the 1st of july of 2012 refused to broadcast in their main nation wide channels the political debate between the four candidates to the Presidency of the Republic, arguing that football and musical contests were more relevant events for the citizens than the pre-electoral political discussions. This fact reveals the need of civil society to demand to the Congress the approval of an integral media and telecommunications law which modifies the actual disproportional relationship between the informative monopolies, the State and the society, and that introduce a new pluralistic and democratic pact among these actors which allows to create more pluralistic and virtuous conditions in the performance of electronic cultural industries in the nation.