La Nueva España, los inicios de la prensa del Movimiento en Asturias (1936-1939)

• Main Author: Álvaro Fleites Marcos
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale-Méditerranée (TELEMME) 2009-01-01
• Series: El Argonauta Español
• Subjects: war’s press; Franquism; Spanish Civil War; Falange; Asturias; Cadena del Movimiento
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/argonauta/760

This article analyzes the most important Asturian journal from the twentieth century, La Nueva España, in its formal, material and ideological aspects during its three first years of existence, which broadly correspond to the duration of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). One of the pioneers of the future falangist chain of newspapers, the diary from Oviedo constitutes an excellent observatory to revise the falangist attitude towards the Civil War, the intervention of the fascist powers on it, and the political evolution inside the rebel faction. At the same time, the isolation of Oviedo and its location in the front line accentuated the falangist conception of the press as a war instrument in the journal, leading also to the adaptation of its funding, edition and news input systems to the peculiar war circumstances, thus becoming an original hybrid between trench press and rearguard press.