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The Chilean Press Since Allende

was explicit: ’The press, radio stations and television channels supporting the Unidad Popular [Allende’s political coalition] must suspend their informative activities from this moment on; otherwise they will be bombarded from the air and ground.’1 These words marked the beginning of an ordeal for the Chilean press from which it has not yet recovered, although relations between the military government and the press have become somewhat more relaxed in the past three years. This paper, based primarily on 19 interviews conducted in Chile between 1976 and 1979, will attempt to chart the course of the current Chilean press and to look toward the future. Interviewed were editors of all newspapers and magazines, directors of some radio stations, government officials, heads of professional associations, and those directing journalism education. When Allende was overthrown and probably murdered on the day that the Military Junta broadcast its demands, some U.S. newspapers rejoiced,’ but theirs was to be a Pyrrhic victory for the Chilean press was to suffer much more repression and abuse since 1973 than during the Allende years. The Marxist president’s record in regard to freedom of the press is not unblemished, for the Unidad Popular tried to comer the newsprint industry to cut off supplies