The hybridism of the communicational model used in the Canary Islands

Abstract

In this present article we had proposed to prove that the prevailing, traditional discrepancy between politics and journalism in the Canary Islands in the current territory of Spain, until now explained as an evidence or sign of some kind of deficit in the society of the Archipelago, keeps connection with the geographical and historical determinants of the same islands. For that purpose, we had suggested that the Canarian model, instead of being linked to the European countries located in the south of the Mediterranean Sea as it occurs in the Peninsula, conjugate those characteristics that we can properly determine as typical to the State together with other ideological patterns of the so called Anglo-American model. We had verified such hypothesis in the two central islands of the Archipelago, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, in two preliminary studies made using different methodological parameters: in the first case, we had used microhistory in order to research the problem in the years of the Sexenio Democrático (1868-1874) (Spanish historical period called Democratic Six-year Term); and, in the second example, we had resorted in a long-term, linear investigation from the oldest beginning of the sector to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1758-1936). According to our perception, the redundancy of their results with the two different methodological proposals, that drive us to the overcoming of the objection usually attributable to each of them separately, confers the desirable exactitude to the conclusions.