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GASTON SANCHEZ, Emiliano. Pendientes de un hilo: Guerra comunicacional y manipulación informativa en la prensa porteña durante los inicios de la Gran Guerra. Polít. cult. [online]. 2014, n.42, pp.55-87. ISSN 0188-7742.

The aim of this paper is to analyze, through the newspapers of Buenos Aires, the role played by European news agencies and submarine cable companies during the first months of the Great War. British control over submarine cables and the use by local newspapers from news agencies allies as Havas and Reuters were crucial to determine and disseminate a particular view on the war and in particular on the German offensive of the summer of 1914. Before any further explanation, this allows understanding the sympathetic majority of the Buenos Aires public opinion by the forces of the Triple Entente, revealing and the tendentiousness of the information published the locals daily.

Palavras-chave : communicational war; news agencies; submarine cable companies; periodical press; Buenos Aires.