Pluralism of News and Social Plurality in the Colombian Local Media
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article provides an up-to-date analysis of the usage by media information provided by the administration. The authors describe how the information obtained by the media is used in the media’s current activities. They examine the deviations that include favoring dominant political interests. The authors also analyze how information is conveyed to the media and how local politics is covered. Moreover, they analyze key elements of news disseminated by private media. Their findings present shortcomings that result in differences between public information and private media content. They describe the limitations of building quality journalism that would satisfy the interests of citizens. The article is correctly written and cognitively valuable. It contains quality content and can be published. To enrich the content referred to in the article, it would be worthwhile to refer to current research and articles, ex.;
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347909989_Analysis_of_Changes_in_the_Journalistic_Profession_Caused_by_the_COVID-19_Pandemic_Including_Communication_with_Target_Groups_and_the_Use_of_New_Technologies
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Reviewer 2 Report
The positive value of the article is the research conducted. The methodology is acceptable. The only concern is that this is research from 2018. I would like to know the reasons why the authors publish them so late.
2 The theoretical part is the weaker side of the article. The reference to classical theories (Goffman, Entman, McCombs) is welcome. However, I am concerned about the weakness of the theoretical part of the text. The analysis of previous publications (State of Art) is on a very weak level. The authors have largely limited themselves to publications in Spanish. They even omitted such a fundamental - from the point of view of the theoretical assumptions of the article - publication as the article: Gibson, Edward L. (2010), Politics of the Periphery: An Introduction to Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America, in Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2, 2, 3-12. Its full text is available online (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1866802X1000200201), so I find the authors' decision incomprehensible. Moreover, the reviewed article does not refer to recent publications at all. If I noticed correctly, the youngest entry in the bibliography is from 2017. Most of the articles are much older.
Therefore, I believe that the article will reach the quality necessary for publication only when the Authors complete the theoretical part and present the current state of previous research on the topic undertaken. Even a brief analysis in Web of Science reveals several articles in English on local media in South America (including Colombia). The state of research on Subnational Authoritarianism also needs to be described more broadly.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors have significantly improved their text, so I see no obstacle to it being published. The explanation about the concern for the researcher's safety fully convinces me. Best wishes!
