Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-379) and index.
Foreword. Killing the messsenger : the perils of committing journalism / Judith Matloff -- Introduction. Journalism, satire, and censorship in Mexico / Paul Gillingham, Michael Lettieri, and Benjamin T. Smith -- Notes for a history of the press in Mexico / Pablo Piccato -- Journalists on trial : the press, censorship, and the law, 1891-1920 / Ana Mariá Serna Rodríguez -- Changing opinions in La opinión : Maximino Ávila Camacho and the Puebla Press, 1936-1941 / Andrew Paxman -- The year Mexico stopeed laughing : the crowd, satire, and censorship in Mexico City / Benjamin T. Smith -- In the service of the Gremio : bus industry magazines, PRI corporatism, and the politics of trade publications / Michael Lettieri -- The regional press boom, ca. 1945-1965. How muchnews was fit to print? / Paul Gillingham -- "The invisible tyranny" ; or, The origin of the "perfect dictatorship" / Jacinto Rodríguez Munguía -- The cartoons of Abel Quezada / Roderic Al Camp -- Testing the limits of censorship? Política Magazine and the "perfect dictatorship," 1960-1967 / Renata Keller -- Censorship in the headlines : national news and the contradictions of Mexico City's press opening in the 1970s / Vanessa Freije -- Democratization and the regional press / Javier Garza Ramos -- Between the imperius curse and the matrix : attacks on journalists in Mexico City / Rafael Baarajas -- The plaza is for the populacho, the desert is deep-sea fishing : lessons from la Nota Roja / Everarde Meade -- Front lines and back channels : the fractal publics of El blog del narco / Paul K. Eiss