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Community radio

In Chile if you ask something what is his favorite radio, probably he ask you “Cooperativa”, “AND” or “Biobío” for the journalistic work and “Rock and Pop” or “40 principales” for the music, maybe other depending on the interest of the listener, but in most cases, perhaps in all cases, the replies will be stations of the FM dial or, in very few persons, of the AM dial. This media are important companies that make a fantastic work, in fact personally I like them a lot, but there is something that worries me a lot: almost of this radio stations are controlled by gigantic empires of communication or by businessmen that have interests with politic parties. 

All of my life I thought that the entire radio world is contaminated by the business and the partisan politics but when I began to study journalism I discovered the community radios. This is a type of mass media that have interest in development the needs and discussions of the communities, giving very little time to the issues of the powerful people. The most common topics that are spoken in the community media are the environment, the social movements, the indigenous peoples and gender issues. Apparently the powerful don’t like to remember that this think exist.

In our country this medias have very disadvantages to grow up because the laws are very insufficient and don’s recognize the important role that they have for the democracy and to make discussions with different point of view in the public opinion.