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'Satiric TV in the Americas' focuses on Latin American TV satire in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalism, and the prevalent local media culture. It introduces the notion of 'critical metatainment' as negotiated dissent, a key concept for the study of postmodern satire.

This article explores the cases of two satirical publications—The Clinic(Chile, 1998–) andBarcelona(Argentina, 2003–). Through critical humor, visual subversions, and parody, these independent magazines challenged mainstream journalism and official political discourse, offering alternative interpretations about the ruling class and society after traumatic periods—Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile and the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina. Through interviews with the editors and content analysis, this article examines how these satirical publications responded to their respective national contexts by questioning the functioning of power on several levels of society, and how they evolved after they became popular, negotiating their space within the national mediascape. This study also suggests the notion of hybrid alternative media to describe these publications, which became part of a liberating process of collective healing. Initially perceived in opposition to mainstream media in contexts when the press's credibility had decreased, they filled gaps in their society's political communication.

Con un tiraje de 70 mil ejemplares, más de 160 números editados y formato de periódico, The Clinic es la revista más vendida de Chile. Desde su creación en 1998, este quincenario también es un referente obligado de la prensa alternativa en Latinoamérica. Sus características son el humor descarnado, la escritura irreverente, su rechazo contra todo lo que implicó la dictadura militar y su búsqueda constante por revelar las contradicciones de la sociedad chilena.

This article explores how Peruvian sensational and spectacular media served the authoritarian discourse of Alberto Fujimori's government (1990–2000), and howTVinfotainment evolved under democracy after 2000. Through interviews with producers and hosts of theTVshows and by reviewing specific episodes and media events, this article analyses five of the most representative Peruvian infotainmentTVshows of the last two decades in Peru. Building upon a theory on media spectacle, infotainment and tabloidisation, this research shows how an increasing process of media hybridity–the blending of journalism, entertainment, politics, and popular culture–has challenged traditional notions of journalism and has become a prevalent strategy of new political communication forms in Peru, connecting with the global trend towards political infotainment in the media.