The press after October 2 What else can we write about the student movement headed by the National Strike Council?

Abstract

This work is based on the analysis of a specific type of source: journalistic reports published in El Informador, a newspaper circulating in the western region of Mexico. The essay aims to document the origins of various voices that commented on the 1968 student movement and to identify avenues for further research that would extend the study beyond the massacre of October 2nd. It is argued that it is possible to explore new analytical perspectives on the student movement that took place in Mexico City during the summer of 1968. Like any large-scale collective action with significant social impact, this movement generated a media agenda that was documented in both the national and regional press. In this context, the application of methodological frameworks—such as the "political indexing" hypothesis and "agenda-setting" theory—allows for the use of journalistic information to develop new ways of interpreting the collective action of the National Strike Council (CNH).